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Quote: inquirers will tend to fix an anchor set of terms and add additional ones; since they can't judge the anchor set, they blame the added terms

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Topic:
problems with information retrieval
Topic:
probability assessment

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An individual has a tendency to overestimate the … [Tversky J Royal Statistical Society B- 36.2:148-59] … This phenomenon explains why the inquirer is likely … new search queries. The anchor set is formed … for reasons of expediency, but it is maintained … Since, by definition, the anchor set alone does … [query], it is very difficult for the inquirer to test this … for him to browse). Consequently, when he adds … and finds that the [query] is not met, …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: people overestimate the probability of conjunctive events

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