The influence of sample size on causal-strength judgments

YanLing LIU

Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2013, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3) : 716-721.

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Journal of Psychological Science ›› 2013, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3) : 716-721.

The influence of sample size on causal-strength judgments

  • YanLing LIU,
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Abstract: The paper conducted a experiment to investigate weather causal judgment ovaries with sample size, and compare the predictions of five models, ΔP、Power-PC、SS、Support and χ2. Contingency were presented with table format, results show that:(a)The Sample size factor have different effect on different contingency : High sample lead to the low estimate in ΔP = 0 , have no effect in 0< |ΔP | = Power-PC , while lead to high estimate in |ΔP|

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Key words: causal inference / sample size / Support-model / SS-model.

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