How doctors actually think
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How doctors actually think
And we’re Bayesian at a deeper level, too. Our brains, our perception, seem to work by predicting the world – prior probabilities – and updating those predictions with information from our senses: new data. Our conscious experience of the world can be best described as our priors. I predict, therefore I am.
Cognitive Biases — “Tendencies to think in certain ways that can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgments.” (See list of cognitive biases)