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Brase (2002, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
Special design criteria are largely unable to discriminate between claims that specific competencies in judgments under uncertainty are a result of an adaptation for representing naturally sampled frequencies or due only to inherently properties of such a format.  Because divisions between these perspectives are thin, evidence via additional criteria are persuasive only in combination, using inference to obtain the best available explanation.