Discuss how the hindsight bias and the confirmation bias can lead clinicians to be overconfident in their clinical judgments.

Discuss how the hindsight bias and the confirmation bias can lead clinicians to be overconfident in their clinical judgments.



Clinicians search for symptoms and signs that confirm their diagnosis of the patient. They diagnosed people with schizophrenia and they after the fact searched for things that demonstrated the diagnoses. They may become overconfident in their after-the-fact analyses which perpetuates their confidence in the future and they may end up missing something.


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