17 de outubro de 2009

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"[...] I reviewed with the residents three principal biases these researchers studied: "anchoring," where a person overvalues the first data he encounters and so is skewed in his thinking; "availability," where recent or dramatic cases quickly come to mind and color judgment about the situation at hand; and "attribution," where stereotypes can prejudice thinking so conclusions arise not from data but from such preconceptions."
Tirado de Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing - The New York Review of Books. É uma recensão de livros sobre a saúde norte-americana.

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