psychology
Availability heuristic
Also: Availability bias
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Where to encounter it
Read about Availability heuristic in Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman — the primary source in the Read Stacks library.
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“Kahneman defines the availability heuristic: we judge the frequency or probability of an event by the ease with which instances come to mind.”