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The study you linked effectively reinforces the points I made above. Given the search pattern used and the comments I made before about expectations maintained
by Zenzero 3y ago
The study you linked effectively reinforces the points I made above. Given the search pattern used and the comments I made before about expectations maintained during a read, it follows that the described SSM effect is a source of errors.
Putting a gorilla on a view and then posting to NPR a sensationalized article about how "83% of silly radiologists just can't see what you managed to see" is not that.
In fact I would argue the SSM effect is present in many aspects of medical decisions and likely other industries. The other way to frame the SSM effect is to call it the "this case has the initial patterns of the thousands of other routine cases of disease X, so it is almost guaranteed to be disease X and I have to get home for my daughter's dance recital." effect. It's an optimization strategy that works most of the time.