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The BN structure was constructed from elicited expert knowledge and encoded as a directed acyclic (DAG) graph that represents clinically relevant variables and their interrelationships. Model parameters were estimated using a clinical dataset to predict patient overall survival (OS). In parallel, physicians independently estimated outcomes for the same patients, enabling a direct comparison of predictive performance and error characteristics. The BN captured clinically plausible reasoning patterns and produced less skewed prediction errors than physicians, suggesting partial mitigation of individual cognitive bias. However, both the BN and physicians exhibited a heavy-tailed error distribution, systematically failing to predict patients with unexpectedly long-term survival. This convergence of error patterns indicates that both human and model-based predictions are constrained by unobserved or unmodeled factors, limiting their ability to capture exceptional outcomes. 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