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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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1) Research has suggested that the availability bias can be used to a plaintiff's benefit at trial by focusing the jury's attention on the defendant's conduct and away from the plaintiff's conduct, because the more you know about someone, the easier it is to find fault with his or her behavior.
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Mlodinow provides lessons on what he calls "a field of subtlety," from the basic laws of probability, to regression toward the mean and availability bias.
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Quill, Elizabeth / Science News
This book is rich in handy little definitions that serve as signposts for would-be gamblers: availability bias, for instance, and the law of sample space; the lucky-guess scenario and the wrong-guess scenario; the prosecutor's fallacy, the sharpshooter effect and the law of large numbers.
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