Like shark attack and the lottery, unconscious bias influences cancer screening
Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 10:50
in Psychology & Sociology
What do shark attack, the lottery and ovarian cancer screening having in common? It turns out our judgments about these things are all influenced by unconscious bias. Humans are prone to overestimating the likelihood of extreme events. Blame it on availability bias – the tendency to judge the frequency of an event by how easy […]