We get biased on things that make sense.

摘要

When I was teaching third year medical students, and bench-lecturing clinical laboratory science students, I emphasized the importance of clinical details and the history of patients in laboratory test processing, especially in the evaluation of peripheral blood films. During those times, one of my students stated, "but including details of patients might somehow affect the decision of the reviewer, and may lead to a bias." I responded that we are biased on things that make sense. This means that we decide based on the evidence we see from a microscopy evaluation in the light of the clinical detail and history. How do clinical details and history help us reach decisions?