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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-12-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010796 |