Undoing the side-effects of statistics education - Developing training methods to eliminate the equiprobability bias

This project was aimed at finding ways of eliminating the equiprobability bias which is a tendency for individuals to think of random events as "equiprobable" by nature and to judge outcomes that occur with different probabilities as equally likely. This project was based on a large scale srudy which showed that paradoxically psychology students at more advanced stages of their education tend to give more incorrect equiprobability responses than students who had no former education in statistics. The aim of the project was to develop and compare training methods that can eliminate the bias and thus un-do the side-effects of statistics education.