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Sample size dependence of Occam’s razor in human decision-making

2026-01-27

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To make sense of a noisy world, living beings constantly face decisions between competing interpretations for ambiguous sensory data. This process parallels statistical model selection, where most frameworks, like the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), are based on a trade-off between a model’s goodness-of-fit and its complexity and prescribe a bias towards simpler mod...

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Literature Corpus work: 69deba60-04a3-5afd-8970-9600f1ef76a1
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.25.701581

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