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of these people have it.
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So, for every fifty-one people who test positive,
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only one will have the disease,
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giving an average of about two percent.
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This sort of thing is very difficult.
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Our minds are not evolved to do base rate computation.
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And so, any problems involving base rate computation,
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including real world problems,
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like what to do when you come back with a positive test,
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we screw up.
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And often we screw up in the direction of panic.
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The third bias is the "availability bias."