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Is imprecise knowledge better than conflicting expertise? Evidence from insurers’ decisions in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, May 2011
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (62nd percentile)

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Title
Is imprecise knowledge better than conflicting expertise? Evidence from insurers’ decisions in the United States
Published in
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, May 2011
DOI 10.1007/s11166-011-9117-1
Authors

Laure Cabantous, Denis Hilton, Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 4%
United States 3 4%
Brazil 1 1%
France 1 1%
Greece 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 69 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 33%
Researcher 10 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 19 24%
Unknown 3 4%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 19%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 14%
Psychology 11 14%
Social Sciences 10 13%
Environmental Science 7 9%
Other 19 24%
Unknown 6 8%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2015.
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#7,686,573
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Outputs from Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
#179
of 406 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,740
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
#1
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