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availability bias
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availability bias
Risk analysis A bias in risk assessment in which a Pt overestimates the risk of an adverse outcome based on the notoriety of the risk–eg breast CA in ♀. See Bias. Cf Anchoring bias.
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In behavioural terms, the most dangerous thing is the availability heuristic, that is, when people make a decision based on all the available information.
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The tendency to focus on information that is readily available is often referred to as the availability heuristic (Faust, 1986; Gambrill, 2005).
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