A Common Error That People Make Is to Reward on an Intermittent

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Essay

A common error that people make is to reward on an intermittent basis the very responses that they would like to eliminate. Create an example that illustrates this type of error and that explains the consequences that could occur.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variability or dispersion of a set of values.

Shopping Outlet

A retail store or point of sale offering goods to the public, often characterized by the type of products it sells or its brand affiliation.

Probability of No Retries

The likelihood that a process or event will be completed successfully on the first attempt without the need for repeating it.

Expected Value

The long-run average value of repetitions of the experiment it represents, often used in probability and statistics.