Christopher Osterhaus

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    • Scientific reasoning
    • Dealing with evidence
    • Social cognition
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Schlagwort: College students

How people interpret contingency tables

How people interpret contingency tables

Dealing with evidence, Research

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…

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Interpreting data

Interpreting data

Publications

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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Interpreting bar graphs: Even college students struggle!

Interpreting bar graphs: Even college students struggle!

Dealing with evidence, Research

In a recent study, we investigated people’s ability to interpret bar graphs. What we found: Even college students find it difficult. On average, they solved less than 50% of the…

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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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