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Explaining the Flaws in Human Random Generation as Local Sampling with Momentum

2023-03-25

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<p>In many tasks, human behavior is far noisier than is optimal. Yet when asked to behave randomly, people are typically too predictable. We argue that these apparently contrasting observations have the same origin: the operation of a general-purpose local sampling algorithm for probabilistic inference. This account makes distinctive predictions regarding random sequence generation, not predicted by previous accou...

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Literature Corpus work: 1bebf198-9bf0-5e7c-8197-a1b9a5d3c2e3
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/np6hd

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