How quantity judgment changes as the number of cues increases: An analytical framework and review.

People frequently must make judgments of quantities. This article concerns how increasing the number of cues supporting such judgments affects accuracy as well as the judgment process itself. Research on these issues is sparse. This seems partly due to ambiguity about what it means to say that quantity judgments are accurate. Thus, a major focus of the article is on integrating 2 disparate approaches to analyzing quantity judgment, lens model analysis from psychology and mean squared error analysis from economic forecasting

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