People overestimate the frequency of deaths caused by shark attacks because they have seen scary movies about sharks. Psychologists call that reasoning error:

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People overestimate the frequency of deaths caused by
shark attacks because they have seen scary movies about
sharks. Psychologists call that reasoning error:
O Hindsight bias.
O Availability heuristic.
Loss avoidance.
Fairness bias.
Transcribed Image Text:People overestimate the frequency of deaths caused by shark attacks because they have seen scary movies about sharks. Psychologists call that reasoning error: O Hindsight bias. O Availability heuristic. Loss avoidance. Fairness bias.
People overestimate the frequency of deaths caused by
shark attacks because they have seen scary movies about
sharks. Psychologists call that reasoning error:
O Hindsight bias.
O Availability heuristic.
Loss avoidance.
Fairness bias.
Transcribed Image Text:People overestimate the frequency of deaths caused by shark attacks because they have seen scary movies about sharks. Psychologists call that reasoning error: O Hindsight bias. O Availability heuristic. Loss avoidance. Fairness bias.
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Heuristics are considered as mental shortcuts that people often use to make decisions and solve problems. This helps to make faster judgements and thus reducing the mental effort and time taken. Heuristics are of three type:

  1. Availability heuristic
  2. Representative heuristic
  3. Anchoring and adjustment

 

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