Mirta Galesic

Mirta Galesic

Mirta Galesic is a co-author, with Rocio Garcia-Retamero and Gerd Gigerenzer, of the 2010 Medical Decision Making paper Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect?, which reports two experiments on the effect of icon arrays on risk judgments.

Who they are

Galesic appears in this site's material as the second author of the 2010 paper. Her institution and wider body of work have not been verified for this site, so this page does not describe them.

Key papers

Garcia-Retamero, R., Galesic, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2010). Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect? Medical Decision Making, 30(6), 672-684. doi:10.1177/0272989X10369000

In the two experiments, adding icon arrays to numerical risk information drew attention to the denominators and improved the accuracy of participants' risk judgments.

Key ideas

The paper's conclusion is that the difficulty with denominator neglect lies largely in how the problem is represented. The authorship is shared, and this page does not try to separate the three authors' contributions. The display is described on the page on icon arrays and the effect on the page on denominator neglect.

Sources

  1. Garcia-Retamero, R., Galesic, M., & Gigerenzer, G. (2010). Do icon arrays help reduce denominator neglect? Medical Decision Making, 30(6), 672-684. doi:10.1177/0272989X10369000