Effects of a common linguistic misrepresentation on judgments about the relationship between height and weight.

摘要: Researchers have debated whether laypeople can detect covariation and tried to identify conditions that might facilitate or retard this ability. Language, especially linguistic representation of variables, seems important consider since misrepresentation appears be relatively common in exchanges. In the present theory-based experiment, 16 subjects were asked make judgments about relationship between height either weight (heavy light) bodyfat (fat thin). Data provided evidence a powerful illusory association, is, if tall, then thin; short, fat, there was no compelling suggest understood weight.