Scientific Definition
Relying on examples that come to mind easily, not on actual frequency.
Plain-English Definition
Relying on examples that come to mind easily, not on actual frequency.
Feynman Explanation
The vivid story beats the boring statistic.
Core Principle
Relying on examples that come to mind easily, not on actual frequency.
Mechanisms
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Relying on examples that come to mind easily, not on actual frequency.
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Strategic priorities skew toward whatever was on the call this week.
Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
The vivid story beats the boring statistic.
Examples
- Overestimating risk of plane crashes after one is in the news.
- Strategic priorities skew toward whatever was on the call this week.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Anchor decisions to base rates before recent anecdotes.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Anchor decisions to base rates before recent anecdotes.
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The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.
We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.
Researchers favor conclusions aligned with their school, team, or sponsor.
Systematic deviations from rationality in judgment.
Treating multiple data points as independent when they came from one source.
Testing hypotheses only by looking for confirming evidence.
Applying higher scrutiny to evidence we disagree with than to evidence we agree with.
Over-weighting one's own perspective when reconstructing events.
Mind latches onto the first plausible explanation and resists alternatives.
Research outcomes tend to favor the interests of the funders.
Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.
Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.