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Note on "Small Feedback-based Decisions and Their Limited Correspondence to Description-based Decisions"

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Barron and Erev (2003) report experimental results revealing differences in risk attitude in small feedback-based problems as opposed to conventional description-based problems. This note shows that theoretical predictions drawing on a simple decision rule, known as the heuristic of relative probability comparisons (HRPC), fit the experimental data in Barron and Erev (2003) surprisingly well: even in the choice situation where the HRPC predicts an exact indifference the actual distribution of subject responses was 49% to 51%.

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  • Pavlo Blavatsky, 2003. "Note on "Small Feedback-based Decisions and Their Limited Correspondence to Description-based Decisions"," CERGE-EI Working Papers wp218, The Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute, Prague.
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    Heuristic of relative probability comparisons; Feedback-based decisions;

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    • C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
    • D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory

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