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What would you say if you were offered: either 200 dollars now or a mystery sum of money which might be lower, higher, or the same value as the initial offer? Alternatively, imagine you were late for a meeting, you could take your standard route where you know the likely time of arrival or you could try a new course that may improve your travel time, but alternatively could make us even later?
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Sheffield, E. (2021). Ambiguity Bias. In: Raz, M., Pouryahya, P. (eds) Decision Making in Emergency Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0143-9_3
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