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Reasoning under uncertainty.

Colin AitkenDimitris Mavridis
Published in: Evidence-based mental health (2019)
Probabilistic reasoning is not innate and relies on good education. Common mistakes include the 'prosecutor's fallacy' and the interpretation of relative measures without consideration of the actual risks of the outcome, for example, interpretation of a likelihood ratio without taking into account the prior odds.
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