[HN Gopher] The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cogn...
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       The Availability Bias: How to Overcome a Common Cognitive
       Distortion
        
       Author : feross
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2021-06-07 12:02 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | hervature wrote:
       | > We overestimate the likelihood of unlikely events. And we
       | underestimate the likelihood of likely events.
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       | Perhaps we act this way (worried about plane crashes), but that
       | certainly isn't true. Humans have shown time and again to
       | systematically discount unlikely events.
        
         | TrainedMonkey wrote:
         | Humans are capable of believing in whatever they want. People
         | will emphacize likelihood of a plane crash if they are dreading
         | going somewhere and discount it if there is a vacation in
         | paradise on the other end.
        
           | mistermann wrote:
           | > Humans are capable of believing in whatever they want.
           | 
           | Combine that with an ultra-flexible/fundamentally ambiguous
           | language, and it goes a long ways towards explaining Planet
           | Earth, early 21st century!
        
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