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[11] “Exactly”: The Most Famous Framing Effect Is Robust To Precise Wording - Data Colada

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In an intriguing new paper, David Mandel suggests that the most famous demonstration of framing effects – Tversky & Kahneman's (1981) “Asian Disease Problem” – is caused by a linguistic artifact. His paper suggests that eliminating this artifact eliminates, or at least strongly reduces, the framing effect. Does it? This is the perfect sort of paper...

In an intriguing new paper , David Mandel suggests that the most famous demonstration of framing effects – Tversky & Kahneman’s (1981) “Asian Disease Problem” – is caused by a linguistic artifact. His paper suggests that eliminating this artifact eliminates, or at least strongly reduces, the framing effect. Does it? This is the perfect sort of paper for a replication: The original finding is foundational and the criticism is both novel and fundamental. We read Mandel’s paper because we care about the topic, and we replicated it because we cared about the outcome. The Asian Disease Proble

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