Alexandra M Cardoso Pinto, Sajan B Patel, Morwenna Stephens, Payal Guha, Ana Baptista, Susan Smith
Developing as health professionals through community volunteering: exploring the value of a partnership between medical students and primary schools online compared to in-person
BMC medical education
one major debates concerning nature inferential reasoning counterexamplebased strategies mental model theory statistical strategies underlying probabilistic models dualstrategy model proposed verschueren schaeken dydewalle 2005a 2005b suggests people might access kinds strategies one postulates approach statistical strategies correspond lowcost intuitive modes evaluation whereas counterexample strategies highercost variable use examined hypothesis using deductiveupdating paradigm results study 1 showed individual differences strategy use predict different levels deductive updating inferences logical validity study 2 demonstrated variation explicitly probabilistic inferences examined study 3 showed presenting updating problems probabilistic inferences modified performance subsequent problems using logical validity whereas opposite true results provide clear evidence processes used make probabilistic inferences less subject variation used make inferences logical validity