MEANING
Underweighting how common an outcome is in a population when judging an individual case from vivid or diagnostic details.
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Use when prior prevalence is underweighted while evaluating an individual case.Explain why a vivid individual detail can outweigh a population-level probability in judgment.
Words that belong together
- base rate neglect in diagnosis
- neglect base-rate information
- susceptibility to base-rate neglect
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Ignoring the disease’s low prevalence, the reviewer treated one vivid symptom as decisive.
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Word forms
- Base
- base rate neglect
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Usage notes
Describes underweighting, not always total omission; diagnostic evidence still matters alongside population prevalence.
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