Christopher Osterhaus

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How people interpret contingency tables

Dealing with evidence, Research

How people interpret contingency tables

costerhaus Juni 21, 2020

Contingency tables are widely used to show the relation between two dichotomous variables. Which strategies do people use when they interpret contingency tables?

Our recent study discovered a new strategy. Find out which…

Osterhaus, C., Magee, J., Saffran, A., & Alibali, M. W. (2019). Supporting successful interpretations of covariation data: Beneficial effects of variable symmetry and problem context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 994–1004. doi:10.1177/1747021818775909

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About

Christopher Osterhaus is a postdoctoral research associate in psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

My research explores how children come to understand complex social situations and how they acquire scientific reasoning skills.

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