frugal
adjective
uk
/ˈfruː.ɡəl/ us
/ˈfruː.ɡəl/Meaning of frugal in English
(Definition of frugal from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
frugal | American Dictionary
frugal
adjective
us
/ˈfru·ɡəl/frugal | Business English
frugal
adjective
uk
/ˈfruːɡəl/ us
frugality
noun [ U ]
Examples of frugal
frugal
In short, we welcome fast and frugal models because they make us re-think the dimensions of human judgment.
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Because water was the energy source powering the mines, it needed to be conserved, redistributed, and managed in an orderly and frugal manner.
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This commentary explores just how we should interpret this proposed replacement of logic and probability theory by fast and frugal heuristics.
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We do not know whether humans are successful when being fast and frugal.
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She should be a skilful and diligent household manager, responsible for methodical organization, cleanliness, tidiness and frugal budgeting.
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The combination of conceptual analysis, simulation, and experimentation has deepened our understanding of fast and frugal heuristics.
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Stimulus-driven indexing creates pointers that support fast and frugal cognition.
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Why should the prevalence of fast and frugal heuristics have any implications at all for the normative theories of logic and probability theory?
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People in this position might be living a frugal lifestyle in order to preserve their housing assets.
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We consider fast and frugal heuristics to represent bounded rationality in its purest form.
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What is the evidence for fast and frugal heuristics?
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This challenges the argument that fast and frugal models are more frugal than regression models, at least in terms of the number of cues searched.
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The first challenge is to explore fast and frugal heuristics for solving tasks beyond those we considered so far.
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Following our bounded rationality perspective, a fast and frugal mind need not employ a metalevel demon who makes optimal cost-benefit computations when selecting a heuristic.
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Asking at most three yes/no questions is a fast and frugal strategy for making a decision.
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