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The Impossibly Difficult Exam
Psychologist Richard Nisbet and his student Eugene Borgeda conducted an experiment at the University of Michigan. They showed students vignettes describing some students who had taken a Yale exam. The participants were asked to judge probability that each student had passed the test. Ashen used an ingenious method to suggest a non-causal base rate.