Three experiments are reported in which subjective information, defined as the amount of information in judgments of number and frequency of events, was studied, Results suggest different phenomena according to whether judgments are made relative to the display or to the source from which the display is a sample. The results also suggested a variety of other phenomena regarding the effects of number of events at a time, redundancy and the rate time of information presentation on subjective information.
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