Contextualizing The Meaning of Probabilities C. Y. Joanne Peng, Anne Buu, and Bernard Flury Indiana University-Bloomington
Research Questions
Subjects
Instrument
Procedure: the First (Expectation) Task
21 Educationally Related Statements
Procedure: the Second (Paired Comparison) Task
Procedure: the Third (Probability Restatement) Task
Results: the Effect of the Magnitude of Numbers in the Fractional Restatement on the Use of Probability Expressions
Results: the Effect of Subjects’ Expectation of the Real Probability of the Event on Their Use of Probability Expressions
Results: Numeric Meanings of Probability Expressions in the Numeric-to-lexical Mapping within Educational Contexts
Two Statistical Methods Used to Analyze the Paired Comparison Data
Results: the Comparison of the Least Squares Scales and the Logit Scales
Results: the Consistency between the 1992 and the 1998 Study
Email: peng@indiana.edu
Home Page: http://www.indiana.edu/~jopeng/
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