Equation 7 · Part 1 · Ecological Rationality: When Biases Are Adaptations
Symbol c_miss
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…heuristics-and-biases research uses as its comparison point. Error management theory’s substantive claim is that this special case almost never held over evolutionary history for fitness-relevant judgments: whenever exceeds , the right-hand side falls below one, and the cost-minimizing rule requires inferring H even when the raw likelihood ratio is unfavorable to it, which looks, from the classical vantage point, exactly like a bias. Haselton and Buss’s original 2000 paper tested a specific…
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- [10] Error Management Theory: A New Perspective on Biases in Cross-Sex Mind Reading ↗
- [12] The Evolution of Error: Error Management, Cognitive Constraints, and Adaptive Decision-Making Biases ↗
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