Name: The Bias in researching cognitive bias
Creator: Geoff, Norman
Keywords: Thinking, 2. Zero hunger, 03 medical and health sciences, Cognition, 0302 clinical medicine, Education, Medical, Research, Decision Making, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Humans

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 06 Jun 2014 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Advances in Health Sciences Education, volume 19, pages 291-295 (issn: 1382-4996, eissn: 1573-1677,

Authors: Geoff, Norman;

doi: 10.1007/s10459-014-9517-5

pmid: 24903584

The Bias in researching cognitive bias

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The two problems are mathematically and formally equivalent. As Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel prize winning psychologist explains in his book, Thinking Fast and Slow (2012), if the probability of being a bank teller/having a pneumothorax is p(A), and the probability of being a feminist/having a ruptured spleen is p(B), then the probability of having both is p(A) 9 p(B), which by definition is always less than the smaller of p(A) and p(B). Yet a majority of undergraduate psychology students will choose the normatively incorrect

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Thinking, Cognition, Education, Medical, Research, Decision Making, Humans, Psychological Theory, Probability

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