The Theory is Predictive, but is it Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness
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- Jon Kleinberg & Annie Liang & Sendhil Mullainathan, 2017. "The Theory is Predictive, but is it Complete? An Application to Human Perception of Randomness," PIER Working Paper Archive 17-025, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, revised 09 Aug 2017.
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