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The Availability Heuristic
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The availability heuristic judges the likelihood of an event by how easily examples of it come to mind.
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People overestimate the risk of rare and heavily reported events and underestimate common quiet ones.
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Availability tracks memorability, not frequency. Coverage and vividness both distort it.