Seek and ye shall find: Test results are what you hypothesize they are

Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 235-249

  Ben Shakhar, Gershon ^a   Bar Hillel, Maya ^a   Bilu, Yoram ^a   Shefler, Gaby ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HERZOG HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Baye's theorem; Clinical judgment; Cognitive confirmation; Confirmation bias; Hypothesis testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444454529     PISSN: 08943257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0771(1998120)11:4<235::AID-BDM299>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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