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Table 1 Representation of cognitive biases in the ICBM

From: Measurement properties of the Inventory of Cognitive Bias in Medicine (ICBM)

Bias

No. of Items

Insensitivity to prior probability of outcomes

9

Use of irrelevant information in probability estimates

6

Insensitivity to sample size

5

Illusory correlation

5

Easily retrievable instances are judged to be more frequent

4

Framing of anchoring bias

2

Confirmatory bias

1

Misperceptions of chance

1

Insensitivity to the principle of regression

1

Insensitivity to superior reliability of objective over intuitive data

1

  1. Note. Reprinted with permission from Academic Medicine [13].