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ConceptAvailability Heuristic

Availability Heuristic

A judgment bias in cognitive psychology whereby people tend to assess the probability and attribution of events based on the examples that are easiest to recall or bring to mind, often leading to simplified explanations of complex events.

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Nov 1

"AI attribution bias" can correspond in cognitive psychology to the "availability heuristic," namely that people tend to attribute complex events to the explanation that comes to mind most easily.

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Oct 8

The 'Availability Heuristic' causes people to tend to treat vivid anecdotal stories as universal patterns.

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Sep 19

The Availability Heuristic refers to the tendency of the human brain to judge scenarios that are easy to imagine and vivid as high-probability events.

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