GloboSnax has an overall 10% success rate when introducing new products. (Suppose success here means a product achieves a certain target market share within 2 years of its introduction.) Before roll-out, a secret forecasting committee assesses each new product, and calls it a “winner" or “loser." In the past, the committee has done reasonably well in distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful products: • 90% of products that went on to succeed were correctly called “winners" by the committee. • 80% of products that went on to fail were correctly called “losers" by the committee. A new product, CocoChips is evaluated and labeled a “winner" by the committee. 5. What would be a plausible intuitive probability judgment for the quantity in question 4 from someone exhibiting base-rate neglect? Explain.

GloboSnax has an overall 10% success rate when introducing new products. (Suppose success here means a product achieves a certain target market share within 2 years of its introduction.) Before roll-out, a secret forecasting committee assesses each new product, and calls it a “winner" or “loser." In the past, the committee has done reasonably well in distinguishing between successful and unsuccessful products: • 90% of products that went on to succeed were correctly called “winners" by the committee. • 80% of products that went on to fail were correctly called “losers" by the committee. A new product, CocoChips is evaluated and labeled a “winner" by the committee. 5. What would be a plausible intuitive probability judgment for the quantity in question 4 from someone exhibiting base-rate neglect? Explain.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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Author:Sheldon Ross

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Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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