Statistical Reasoning: What is the Role of Interential Rule Training? Comment on Fong and Nisbett

Fong and Nisbett (1991) argued that, within the domain of statistics, people possess abstract rules; that the use of these rules can be improved by training; and that these training effects are largely independent of the training domain. Although their results indicate that there is a statisically significant improvement in performance due to training, they also indicate that, even after training, most college students do not apply that training to example problems.