Left-digit bias
Behavioral heuristics
Examples
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- “patients who are hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction and who are 80 years and 2 weeks of age may be perceived by physicians as being at greater risk for complications — and thus may receive more conservative treatment — than patients who are 79 years and 50 weeks of age, if cognitive biases lead physicians to discretely categorize patients as being “in their 80s” rather than “in their 70s.”” - https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1911289