Sorry to say, but pilots’ decisions were not irrational

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dc.contributor.authorPerezgonzalez JD
dc.date.available16/12/2016
dc.date.issued16/12/2016
dc.description.abstractFradera’s Digest (2016) makes for interesting reading both for aviators and cognitive psychologists alike. Fradera reports on a research article by Walmsley and Gilbey (2016) and the Digest seems pretty accurate to the contents commented upon (in a way, thus, whatever praises or criticisms are raised apply equally to the latter article). The Digest is interesting because what it says is quite relevant in principle but rather misleading in practice. That is, the actual results reported by Walmsley and Gilbey, do not seem to support the portrayal of pilots as biased and irrational, a portrayal which originates in the interpretation of those results based on a flawed statistical technique—null hypothesis significance testing, or NHST. In a nutshell, Fradera opted to summarize the interpretation of (some) outputs made by Walmsley and Gilbey instead of re-interpreting those outputs anew within the context of the methodology and the results described in the original article, as I shall argue.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished online
dc.identifierhttps://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/05/16/sorry-to-say-but-your-pilots-decisions-are-likely-just-as-irrational-as-yours-and-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-10868
dc.identifier.citation2016
dc.identifier.doi10.6084/m9.figshare.4460078
dc.identifier.elements-id285290
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/10444
dc.publisherBritish Psychological Society Digest Research
dc.publisher.urihttps://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/05/16/sorry-to-say-but-your-pilots-decisions-are-likely-just-as-irrational-as-yours-and-mine/comment-page-1/#comment-10868
dc.subjectNHST
dc.subjectVFR flying
dc.subjectcognitive biases
dc.subjectcorrection of the research literature
dc.subjectBetter Science
dc.titleSorry to say, but pilots’ decisions were not irrational
dc.typeinternet
pubs.notesNot known
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School/School of Aviation
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