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Excerpt from Anchoring Effects in the Absolute Judgment of Verbal Materials
The case for the existence of principles of judgment which have general applicability rests upon evidence from a number Of sources. For our purposes, it will suffice merely to indicate the variety of the bases for the hypothesis of a single mechanism Of judgment. Such very general principles as number-preferences and the round-number tendency have long been recognized as common to many judgment-situations. Coover (12) brought together a mass Of statistical evidence demonstrating the influence of these mental habits upon judgments in a wide variety Of situations. His ex amination of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Census Reports revealed a tendency for people to give their chronological ages in multiples Of five or in even numbers. He found, too, that round-number tendencies and number-preferences distort the distributions of lengths Of criminal-sentences assigned by judges, of astronomers' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
