ABSTRACT
Experience often allows us to improve our ability to reach our goals in judgment and decision-making tasks. This experience may be direct: We gain it as we tackle tasks on repeated occasions. Alternatively, it may be indirect: We gain it as we observe others repeatedly attempting the tasks. Of course experience with the task is not the only way that decision making can be improved. We can blindly take the advice of or be guided by someone more experienced in the task or we can let them educate us about how the system underlying the task works and then use inferential techniques to determine the best way to proceed.
