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    "pk": 26536,
    "title": "The distorting effect of deciding to stop sampling",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "usually collect information to serve specific goals andoften end up with samples that are unrepresentative of the un-derlying population. This can introduce biases on later judg-ments that generalize from these samples. Here we show thatgoals influence not only what information we collect, but alsowhen we decide to terminate search. Using an optimal stop-ping analysis, we demonstrate that even when learners have nocontrol over the content of a sample (i.e., natural sampling),the simple decision of when to stop sampling can yield sampledistributions that are non-representative and could potentiallybias future decision making. We test the prediction of thesetheoretical analyses with two behavioral experiments",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
        "name": "",
        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information search; stopping rules; sampling;decision-making"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1255g3gs",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Anna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Coenen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Todd",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gureckis",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "New York University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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