The Issue with Medical Research
How the “public or perish” culture around medical research has prized bad research practices over good ones
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Category: Medical Psychology
Omission Bias in Medicine
How omission bias negatively impacts medical decision making
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Outcome Bias in Medicine
How outcome bias negatively impacts research and patient care
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Occam’s Razor in Medicine
How Occam’s Razor serves as a useful yet problematic diagnostic tool
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Sunk Cost Fallacy in Medicine
How a cognitive bias (sunk cost fallacy) negatively impacts medical decisions
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Survivorship Bias in Medicine
How survivorship bias negatively impacts clinical trials among other things
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Confirmation and Anchoring Biases in Medicine
How two cognitive biases (confirmation and anchoring biases) negatively impact a doctor’s diagnosis among other things
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