Abstract
The article of Sinayev and Peters (2015) proposes extensive and experimentally-grounded arguments able to shed light on the debate which compares (i) the hypothesis that Cognitive Reflection mirrors the human ability of suppressing automatic answers in favor of deliberate ones, with (ii) the hypothesis that numerical ability alone is able to predict superior decision making and to account for Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) (Frederick, 2005) results.
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Interuniversity Research Centre on Sustainable Development, Rome, Italy Keywords: numerals, task format, cognitive reflection test, numeracy, ecological rationality
Being composed by numerical tasks, both Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) and Numeracy Tests assume that individuals posses some skills, more or less developed, in representing and processing numerical magnitudes. The nature of such skills is a classical topic of mathematical cognition debate, a topic that in more recent years has been framed in terms of the tension between the general hypothesis that numerical representation is abstract vs. the hypothesis that numerical representation is not abstract and format dependent
Format dependence in numerical processing is crucial if considered from the general hypothesis that mathematical cognition is embodied
Summary
Interuniversity Research Centre on Sustainable Development, Rome, Italy Keywords: numerals, task format, cognitive reflection test, numeracy, ecological rationality. A commentary on Cognitive reflection vs calculation in decision making by Sinayev, A., and Peters, E.
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