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The Availability Bias

Why most people rather use a wrong map instead of non at all.

”My Grandfather smoked 40 cigarettes a day for his whole life, and he lived to be 98 years. Smoking cannot be that bad”. ”My uncle never locks his doors, not even when going on a trip. He never was burgled”. Such words are usually spoken to prove something – and their source is a phenomenon called Availability Bias.

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