Mellers,B.A.
Hertwig,R.
Kahneman,D.

Reports and error in the original article by B. Mellers et al (Psychological Science, 2001[July], Vol 12[4], 269--275. In this article, B. Mellers, R. Hertwig, and D. Kahneman presented what they believed was "a new method for resolving scientific debate" (p. 269). They have since been informed by Edwin Locke that the method, though good, is not new. Locke and two "antagonists," Gary Latham and Miriam Erez, engaged in a similar collaboration described in an article titled "Resolving Scientific Disputes by the Joint Design of Crucial Experiments by the Antagonists: Application to the Erez-Latham Dispute Regarding Participation in Goal-Setting," Journal of Applied Psychology, Volume 73, Number 4, 1988, pp. 753--772. Mellers, Hertwig, and Kahneman are most grateful to Locke for the citation, and they regret not having been aware of it prior to publication of their article. They offer their sincere apologies to Latham, Erez, and Locke. (The following abstract of this article originally appeared in record 2001-01646-001.) Offers an approach to scientific debate called adversarial collaboration. The approach requires both parties to agree on empirical tests for resolving a dispute and to conduct these tests with the help of an arbiter. In dispute were R. Hertwigs... (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved)

Mellers, B., Hertwig, R., & Kahneman, D. (2001). Do frequency representations eliminate conjunction effects? An exercise in adversarial collaboration. Psychological Science, 12, 269-275. (Full text)

Publication year	2001
Document type:	Article
Publication status:	Published
External URL:	http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/bme/BME_Frequency_2001.pdf View
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