Cognitive Biases: Availability Heuristic

"The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method or decision. The availability heuristic operates on the notion that if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternative solutions which are not as readily recalled." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availab...

A discussion with Johan Martinsson   / johan_alps   about Availability Heuristic in the software development world.

The Availability Heuristic is a cognitive bias https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... that we want to discuss more.

This is part of a series about cognitive biases.


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