Re: about modeling human decisions?
From: Bruce Weaver (bweaver_at_lakeheadu.ca)
Date: 03/11/05
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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:29:20 -0500
Stephen Harris wrote:
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>
> SH: It is difficult to place people in identical situations and then
> determine
> their actual behavior. Instead, people are given surveys with hypothetical
> questions about what would they do in some situation. These people then
> predict what they think they would do, in order to answer the survey.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen
And Skinner's point (in the 1985 article mentioned earlier) was that
this may well be very different from how they would actually behave if
they were really placed in that situation. So anyone who is interested
in predicting actual behaviour ought not confuse it with these
predictions of behaviour.
-- Bruce Weaver bweaver@lakeheadu.ca www.angelfire.com/wv/bwhomedir
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