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Decision Making III
Clinical Decision Making
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did Heller & Saltzstein (1992) find in their base rates study? | The results showed that base rates for non-medical problems were considered by medical interns, and strikingly, in the case of medical problems, they ignored base rates. |
| How can we explain the prevalence of ignoring base rates by medical interns? | People are looking at the symptom pattern and seeing if those symptoms fit in a particular condition |
| How does training, experience and expertise come into play? | Garb (1989) completed an extensive lit review that showed relationships between experience and accuracy of diagnosis. |
| What is the anchoring and adjustment heuristic? | The tendency to base estimates and decisions on known ‘anchors’ or familiar positions, with an adjustment relative to this start point. We are better at relative thinking than absolute thinking. |
| What is confirmation bias? | The tendency for people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypothesis and disregard information that doesn't. |