The Use of Simulated Stimuli and the "Jan" Technique to Capture and Cluster the Policies of Raters

Stylistic Components of Human Judgment: The Generality of Individual Differences

“…One focus of this broad scientific enterprise has been directed at the processes by which information is amalgamated (e.g., Anderson, 1968;Edwards, 1965;Goldberg, 1968;Hoffman, 1960), in the hope of eventually uncovering any systematic biases endemic to intuitive judgments and predictions (e.g., Kahneman Tversky & Kahneman, 1973). Most of this research, which has recently been reviewed by Slovic and Lichtenstein (1973) (Naylor & Wherry, 1965). Generally, one or more 'models is fitted to the judgments of an individual subject, and the adequacy of each such representation is then assessed.…”

Subjective vs objective description of judgment policy

“…In particular, multiple-regression models have been found to be useful in such areas as c1inical inference (e.g., Hoffman, 1960;Hammond, Hursch, & Todd, 1964), human learning (e.g., Peterson, Hammond, & Summers, 1965), personnel selection (Naylor & Wherry, 1965), foreign-policy beliefs (Summers & Stewart, 1968), and interpersonal eonflict (e.g., Summers, Stewart, & Oncken, 1968). In studies such as these, Ss are shown aseries of multidimensional stimuli (e.g., profiles of job applieants) and are asked to make a judgment about each (e.g., regarding job suitability).…”

Integration rules in a multiple-cue probability learning task with intercorrelated cues.

“…This means, a) that some of the reported rules are much more complex than the mathematical expression shows, e.g., subject number 24 said: "X^ minus 5, plus 2 for each step of the difference which in regression terms is 2X^ ~ ^ it is not enough to analyze the regression equations to describe what rules the subjects use (Naylor & Wherry, 1965;Wherry & Naylor, 1966) and c) two different verbal rules may give essentially the same mathematical equation. In the present study subjects 23 and 24 gave two very different verbal descriptions of their rules, and yet the mathematical equations were quite similar.…”