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What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negativ
by bigchewy 10y ago
What do you think happens to the person who receives a single lab result, out of many, indicating that they have cancer? Human nature is to focus on the negative. To assume that humans can, by looking at a multitude of data points, ignore the small # of false positives is to misunderstand the evolution of human emotion.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200306/our-brains-negative-bias https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200306/our-brains-n... talks about why we are evolutionarily programmed to latch on to the negative aspects of our life