TABLE 1.

Overview of most common update strategies.

		Processed information
Strategy types, variants/denotations		Likelihood/positive-when-true rate	Likelihoods of alternatives/positive-when-positive rate	Prior probabilities/base rate
Prior-only strategy (POS)	Conservatism (Edwards, 1968; Zhu and Gigerenzer, 2006); base-rate only (Gigerenzer and Hoffrage, 1995)			X
Single evidence strategies (SES)	Representative thinking (Zhu and Gigerenzer, 2006); Fisherian (Gigerenzer and Hoffrage, 1995); inverse fallacy (Villejoubert and Mandel, 2002)	X
Combined evidence strategies (CES)	Evidence only (Zhu and Gigerenzer, 2006); likelihood subtraction (Gigerenzer and Hoffrage, 1995)	X	X
Bayesian update strategy (BUS)	Bayesian update (correct application of the Bayes’ rule)	X	X	X