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This important study reports three experiments examining how the subjective experience of task regularities influences perceptual decision-making. Although the evidence linking subjective ratings to ...

1 Northern Regional Teachers Center, Rivera, Uruguay. 2 Federal University of Pampa, Dom Pedrito, Brazil. By the mid-20th century, classical determinism had begun to decline, giving way to the ...

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In Out of the Crisis (1986), Dr. Deming debriefs readers on the results of a typical run of his Red Bead experiment, and asks the reader (as he did in his seminars) what they would believe the ...

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