memory

When people use samples of evidence to make inferences, they consider both the sample contents and how the sample was generated (“sampling assumptions”). The current studies examined whether people can update their sampling assumptions – whether they …

People need to know how data were generated when they encode it; they can't revise it later if their assumptions were wrong

A growing body of literature suggests that making different sampling assumptions about how data are generated can lead to qualitatively different patterns of inference based on that data. However, relatively little is known about how sampling …

Uses a combination of modelling and experiments to show that memory limitations at encoding cannot lead to regularisation.