Browsing by Subject "Probabilities"

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Adding a numerical description to civil standard of proof jury instructions : probabilistic evidence still defies correct liability assignment

McKinlay, John Alexander (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2017)

Responses from 67 law students were obtained using an online study that presented a mock civil jury trial. Each participant was asked to determine liability. The study explores whether more correct assignment of liability ...
Cognition in the woods: biases in probability judgments by search and rescue planners

Hill, Kenneth Anthony (Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2012-07)

A type of emergency decision-making which has not received research attention is the police search for a lost person in a rural or wilderness area. For many such incidents, decisions concerning where to search for the lost ...

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