To which Amos, by himself, appended: “Edwards . . . has argued that people fail to extract sufficient information or certainty from probabilistic data; he called this failure conservatism. Our respondents can hardly be described as conservative. Rather, in accord with the representation hypothesis, they tend to extract more certainty from the data than the data, in fact, contain.” (“Ward Edwards was established,” said Danny. “And we were taking pot shots—Amos was sticking his tongue out at him.”)
