Antonina Omisade, Madison Nugent, Christopher O'Grady, Kristin Ikeda, Stephanie Woodroffe, Karen Legg, Matthias Schmidt, Krista Biggs
Cognitive dysfunction at epilepsy onset as a marker for seizure recurrence
Epilepsy research
bayes theorem provides rationalitystandard information search two mutually exclusive hypotheses one statistical cues pertaining likelihoods hypotheses prior research shows people already cue pertaining hypothesis asked seek additional information help decide hypothesis correct tend exhibit specific form pseudodiagnosticity rather seek information would assess cue relative alternative hypothesis tend seek information second cue would pertain first hypothesis example people told 70 genuine paintings landscapes seek know percentage genuine paintings watercolor rather percentage fake paintings landscapes however response pattern sometimes violated way may depend cues numerical values eg 70 vs 30 thus raising question nature bias selection bias characterize search process per se reflect manner people utilize alreadyobtained percentage information address issues employed novel searchonly judgment paradigm people asked search cues select without ever obtaining cues percentage values results confirmed tendency toward samehypothesis pseudodiagnosticity primary ie mostpreferred secondary preference supported model pseudodiagnosticity proceed without numerical cue data