… RM Hamm was with the Center for Research on Judgment and Policy, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO. He is now with the Institute of Cognitive Science, Campus Box 345, …

Background. Antibiotics are frequently prescribed for respiratory infections, even though most
of these infections are viral. To understand why physicians do so, we studied patients” and …

… 86 RM Hamm it were possible to have cognition and task be well-matched at any position
along the cognitive continuum, at which position would the most accurate reasoning take place…

Reliability is an important dimension of urban water supply. While out-of-pocket losses appear
small, water customers place high values on reliability. This demand for reliability can be …

Background. The purpose of this study was to deter mine how well hypothyroidism could be
predicted from clinical signs and symptoms in elderly patients with no known history of …

A method for verbal expression of degree of uncertainty is described. It requires the subject
to select a phrase from a list that spans the full range of probabilities. In a second, optional, …

Moment-by-moment variation in the use of intuitive and analytical cognition by experts
engaged in a complex judgment task is analyzed. Six highway engineers were asked to think …

Acute rhinosinusitis is one of the most common conditions that physicians treat in ambulatory
practice. Although often caused by viruses, it sometimes is caused by bacteria, a condition …

Purpose. Health Belief Model (HBM) and Transtheoretical Model concepts were used to
investigate possible differences in perceptions of physical activity among African-American …

… More recently, Hamm and colleagues 21 have developed Bayesian-based software to
visualize the threshold as a balance beam as an aid to teaching clinical reasoning. …