Biswas, Dipayan; Zhao, Guangzhi; Lehmann, Donald R. - In: Journal of Consumer Research 37 (2011) 5, pp. 874-874
We examine how consumers update their confidences in ordinal (relative) judgments while evaluating sequential product-ranking and source-accuracy data in percentage versus frequency formats. The results show that when sequential data are relatively easier to mathematically combine (e.g.,...