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• [P445] An Informatic Rationale for the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off
  Author(s): William Soukoreff, Scott MacKenzie
  
  

  Abstract
  This paper argues that the speed-accuracy trade-off arises as a consequence of Shannon's Fundamental Theorem for a Channel with Noise, when coupled with two additional facts: that people are imperfect information processors, and that motivation is a necessary condition of the speed-accuracy trade-off.

  
   

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