#18: Berkson's paradox

Bias number 18 is known as the Berkson’s paradox. This paradox is most often found in decision making when assessing probability and statistical information that proves to be counterintuitive. When this happens, a negative correlation is made between two positive traits, even when the positive traits are unrelated and to the exclusion of cases where there is no correlation between the two traits.

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