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biases in human prediction  

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  • In the language of cognitive psychology, the ability to predict is the ability to infer, estimate, and judge the character of unknown events. By this definition, a large part of clinical medicine requires that physicians make medical predictions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making; Biases in Human Prediction]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-DCJ20GRP-R

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