#availabilitybias — Public Fediverse posts

Are clinicians vulnerable to #availabilityBias?

"Recent... encounters with a disease increased the likelihood of erroneously diagnosing it (b=0.2, p=0.018)" but "having 10 or more years of experience decreased [this] (b=–0.4, p=0.046)"

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019520

#medicine #cogSci

#socialMedia posts about #ADHD seemed to cause #availabilityBias about post quality and even people's self #diagnosis.

#Chatbot #symptom checkers (CSCs) that prompted #reflection on evidence or counterfactuals mitigated the #bias.

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2501.15028

#AI #medicine #cogSci