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1.1. Theoretical background of boosting
According to the boosting framework, the human mind is malleable. The boosting
framework acknowledges the bounds of the human decision maker, such as its
vulnerability to cognitive biases and errors in e.g., risk assessment. Yet, it aims to identify
existing competences and ways to foster them, for example through improving skills or
knowledge, or by providing decision tools. Boosting’s view of the human mind is “…
that of an adaptive toolbox of ecologically rational heuristics.” [3, p. 980].
The theoretical background for boosting is derived from various insights in
decision making [e.g., 7]. At its core is the assumption that people’s cognitive processes
adapt to experiences and that they can rapidly learn to overcome potential errors. Several
research traditions provide support for this idea. First, several scholars in decision
making argue that human thought is based on experiences and subjective probability.
That is, learned patterns may match emerging situations and thereby trigger behaviours
that are relevant and useful in that situation [7]. Second, heuristics can be used as tools
to make decisions, even under uncertainty. These heuristics help people to make smarter
decisions because they are (generally) adaptive within the situation. These approaches
largely converge with a Bayesian approach to decision making, in which people use
priors (based on previous experiences and/or learning) to predict their environment (e.g.,
anticipated outcomes and associated experiences in a challenging decision task they are
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Applied Interdisciplinary Theory in Health Informatics
Knowledge Base for Practitioners
- Title
- Applied Interdisciplinary Theory in Health Informatics
- Subtitle
- Knowledge Base for Practitioners
- Authors
- Philip Scott
- Nicolette de Keizer
- Andrew Georgiou
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Location
- Amsterdam
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-991-1
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 242
- Category
- Informatik