Bias

A research team conducted experiments on the serial dependence of number perception using coins, to see if serial perception bias occurred in lower-order ...

“We believe that research advances on biases—such as the serial dependence bias—should be applied to how information is presented and can be used to create an environment that minimizes human error.” Serial dependence was confirmed for both tasks: it was found that a participant’s last guess, not the coins that they had just seen for half a second, had the greatest effect on how they answered. Experiments were conducted in which between 8 to 32 Japanese coins of three types—silver one yen, gold five yen, and copper ten yen—were displayed on screen for half a second.