Heuristics & biases: what are they?

Heuristics are cognitive strategies used to make decisions when faced with data overload. However, they can lead to biases, such as overassigning probabilities to conjunctions and anchoring. Bayes’ rule can help make unbiased predictions, but it can be difficult to apply in everyday contexts. Heuristics are “rules of thumb,” cognitive strategies people use to make […]

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