The effects of base rate neglect on sequential belief updating and real-world beliefs.

Base-rate neglect is a pervasive bias in judgment that is conceptualized as underweighting of prior information and can have serious consequences in real-world scenarios. This bias is thought to reflect variability in inferential processes but empirical support for a cohesive theory of base-rate neg...

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Main Authors: Brandon K Ashinoff, Justin Buck, Michael Woodford, Guillermo Horga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010796