Let's start off with a definition of cognitive bias. Tversky and Kahneman (1974) referred to cognitive biases as “systematic errors” (p. 1124) in reasoning.

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Results In a total of 274 closed cases of medical injury, the mean age of the patients was 49 years old and 45% were women (Table 1). The reviews performed by the coinvestigators were all ...

Understanding why diagnostic errors happen is harder. Much of the research on this subject has focused on cognitive errors, which contribute to 74% of diagnostic errors. Faulty knowledge or skill was ...

4. Individual errors that happened most often were misjudging how significant a finding was and prematurely deciding on an incorrect diagnosis (13 percent each). 5.

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Although Tversky and Kahneman (1974) referred to cognitive biases as “systematic errors” in reasoning, in the exact same sentence, they also claimed that, “in general, these heuristics ...