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Similarity, feature discovery, and the size principle

2019-08-19

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<p>In this paper we consider the “size principle” for featural similarity, which states that rare features should be weighted more heavily than common features in people’s evaluations of the similarity between two entities. Specifically, it predicts that if a feature is possessed by n objects, the expected weight scales according to a 1/n law. One justification of the size principle emerges from a Bayesian analysi...

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Literature Corpus work: fea1d031-329a-5885-a891-4a0526675b18
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/da4wb

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