Technology needs psychology : how natural frequencies foster insight in medical and legal experts

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serval:BIB_29286CBE3B06
Type
A part of a book
Collection
Publications
Title
Technology needs psychology : how natural frequencies foster insight in medical and legal experts
Title of the book
Etc. Frequency Processing and Cognition
Author(s)
Hertwig R., Hoffrage U.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Address of publication
Oxford, UK
ISBN
9780198508632
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2002
Editor
Sedlmeier P., Betsch T.
Chapter
18
Pages
285-302
Language
english
Abstract
Modern diagnostic technologies such as cancer screening tests or forensic DNA tests confront users with a basic problem, namely that of inferring the accuracy of a diagnostic test on the basis of statistical information about the test. The required statistics can be presented in a wide variety of ways. While these modes of presentation of statistical information are mathematically equivalent, psychologically they are not. This chapter shows that supplementing diagnostic technology with psychological knowledge about how people process frequency information provides us with a very simple — but powerful — method for improving diagnostic inferences.
Keywords
Diagnostic technologies, Statistics, Frequency information, Natural frequency, Diagnostic tests, DNA analysis
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20/08/2019 14:08
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