Suboptimal human inference can invert the bias-variance trade-off for decisions with asymmetric evidence

• Tahra L. Eissa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tahra.eissa@colorado.edu

  Affiliation Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6774-2143

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• Joshua I. Gold ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua I. Gold, Krešimir Josić, Zachary P. Kilpatrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Krešimir Josić ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua I. Gold, Krešimir Josić, Zachary P. Kilpatrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1975-3913

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• Zachary P. Kilpatrick

  Contributed equally to this work with: Joshua I. Gold, Krešimir Josić, Zachary P. Kilpatrick

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2835-9416

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