If you’d asked me “Which disease, common in the past, causes paralysis?” my first answer would have been Polio.
Hindsight bias. Poliomyelitis was only one cause of paralysis; there remain dozens of others, including one far more likely than even polio was: physical injury.
If you’d asked me “Which disease, common in the past, causes paralysis?” my first answer would have been Polio.
Hindsight bias. Poliomyelitis was only one cause of paralysis; there remain dozens of others, including one far more likely than even polio was: physical injury.