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https://thedecisionlab.com/biases/availability-heuristic

You've remembered two examples of this (arguably) happening, so you attempt to draw a conclusion based on the ease with which you came up with those examples. But in reality, this method of inference is prone to error, as it doesn't consider the denominator, or how many attempts were made to achieve the results you're able to remember.






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