Predictable bias allows for correction, and we identified low variability across normal tissues and high variability across tumors as a desirable feature of genomic predictors with predictable bias.
Predictable bias, found in primary and corrective saccadic eye movements, was not found for hand movements, if on-line visual information about the target was available during aiming.
In these cases, specialists trained in the science of decision-making must work with people both to help them to overcome predictable biases and to approach decisions in a way that is different from how they might otherwise make them instinctively.
Limitations of the CATI approach included predictable biases in ascertainment [ 20], leading to an unrepresentative sample from each of the study areas (Additional file 1).
With two illustrative analyses, a linear and a nonlinear regression, we show that failing to account properly for measurement error produces predictable biases, which can lead to serious misunderstandings.
When it comes to public-policy decisions, people exhibit curious — but, once again, predictable — biases.
Behavioural economists argue that consumers are not hyper-rational but have predictable biases, and they use insights from experiments to make models imitate reality more closely.
Sabrina et al. assessed indoor environment quality for hypermarket workers and found that data collected at fixed point locations showed only minor (and predictable) biases due to expectation and to transition through different thermal environments (Sabrina et al. 2012).
For example, we have a rich understanding of the decision-making shortcuts that people apply, as well as of the predictable biases that accompany them.
In many cases, subjective judgements about events are mediated by heuristics, which produce predictable biases [5].
However in addition to these, patients may be expected to encounter more predictable biases related to their adverse health status.
