• DocumentCode
    2133531
  • Title

    The fuzziness index for examining human statistical decision-making

  • Author

    Takayanagi, Sumiko ; Cliff, Norman

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Psychol., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    1993
  • Firstpage
    1150
  • Abstract
    The fuzziness index is described as one of the most efficient and useful experimental tools to examine human decision-making in the area of statistical judgement. This study investigated how statistical significance levels were treated and interpreted by various researchers by using the fuzziness index to measure the degree of fuzziness in hypothesis-testing. The fuzziness index showed a significant association between the magnitude of the fuzziness and the critical point of the human statistical decisions. The research demonstrated the possibility of measuring the human imprecision of the decision boundary, and the effectiveness of the fuzziness index in assessing underlying psychological mechanisms in decision-making
  • Keywords
    decision theory; fuzzy logic; heuristic programming; psychology; critical point; fuzziness index; human imprecision; human statistical decision-making; hypothesis-testing; psychological mechanisms; significance levels; statistical judgement; Anthropometry; Decision making; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy set theory; Humans; Measurement techniques; Probability; Psychology; Testing; Weather forecasting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fuzzy Systems, 1993., Second IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0614-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/FUZZY.1993.327352
  • Filename
    327352