Experimental Foundations of Political ScienceDonald R. Kinder, Thomas R. Palfrey University of Michigan Press, 1993 - 498 pages Shows the range and power of experimental methods in political science |
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... decisions affected the decision process . Increasing the number of alternatives , according to these data , had sur- prisingly little impact on the decision quality variables . However , the number of alternatives did affect decision ...
... decisions affected the decision process . Increasing the number of alternatives , according to these data , had sur- prisingly little impact on the decision quality variables . However , the number of alternatives did affect decision ...
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... decision process . The good news , then , is that increased information load had positive consequences for decision quality . The bad news is that decision - makers used a steadily declining fraction of the information they were given ...
... decision process . The good news , then , is that increased information load had positive consequences for decision quality . The bad news is that decision - makers used a steadily declining fraction of the information they were given ...
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... decisions may demand different sets of skills from a decision - maker . Other researchers have shown that relatively small changes in the structure of a decision problem can require dramatic changes in the strategies decision - makers ...
... decisions may demand different sets of skills from a decision - maker . Other researchers have shown that relatively small changes in the structure of a decision problem can require dramatic changes in the strategies decision - makers ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Coming to Grips with the Holy Ghost | 43 |
SurveyBased Experiments on White Racial Attitudes | 53 |
Copyright | |
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