stackyFACTSThinking of an old friend right before they call you feels incredibly mystical, but it is just statistical probability. Your brain ignores the millions of times you thought of someone and they completely ignored you.
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Judging the likelihood of an event based entirely on how easily an example comes to mind is a mental shortcut known as the availability heuristic. Because…
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The streetlight effect highlights a highly inefficient search algorithm. The logic center dictates searching only where data is easily visible, rather than…
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When faced with two foreign cities, you will always guess the one you have seen on television is bigger. Your mind inherently favors whatever it recognizes,…
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Frequency illusion, commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is a cognitive bias where, after noticing something for the first time, there is a…
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Disregarding a thousand safe airplane landings because you vividly recall one terrifying engine failure. Your risk assessment software heavily prefers a spicy…
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Stop listening to murder podcasts before bed. The availability heuristic relies on immediate examples that come to mind. Because you flood your brain with…
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