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Simply rational : decision making in the real world /
"Statistical illiteracy can have an enormously negative impact on decision making. This book brings together applied and theoretical research on risks and decision making across the fields of medicine, psychology, and economics. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate why the frame in which stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Evolution and cognition.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- How I got started teaching physicians and judges risk literacy
- Why do single event probabilities confuse patients?
- HIV screening: helping clinicians make sense of test results
- Breast cancer screening pamphlets mislead women
- Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics
- Public knowledge of benefits of breast and prostate cancer screening in Europe
- Heuristic decision making
- The recognition heuristic: a decade of research
- The hot hand exists in volleyball and is used for allocation decisions
- Stereotypes about men's and women's intuitions: a study of two nations
- As-if behavioral economics: neoclassical economics in disguise?
- Personal reflections on theory and psychology.