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    "pk": 28069,
    "title": "Explaining away: significance of priors, diagnostic reasoning, and structuralcomplexity",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Recent research suggests that people do not perform wellon some of the most crucial components of causal reason-ing: probabilistic independence, diagnostic reasoning, and ex-plaining away. Despite this, it remains unclear what con-texts would affect people’s reasoning in these domains. Inthe present study we investigated the influence of manipulatingpriors of causes and structural complexity of Causal BayesianNetworks (CBNs) on the above components. Overall we foundthat participants largely accepted the priors and understoodprobabilistic independence, but engaged in inaccurate diagnos-tic reasoning and insufficient explaining away behavior. More-over, the effect of manipulating priors on participants’ perfor-mance in diagnostic reasoning and explaining away was sig-nificantly larger in a structurally less complex CBN than in astructurally more complex CBN.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Explaining Away; Diagnostic Reasoning; Priorprobability; Causal Bayesian Networks; Network Complexity;Interpretations of Probability; Propensity"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9t25s82z",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Alice",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Liefgreen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University College London",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marko",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Tesic",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of London",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "David",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lagnado",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University College London",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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