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Quantifying Heuristic Bias: Anchoring, Availability, and Representativeness

Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 2017
Construct: Authors examined whether a new vignette-based instrument could isolate and quantify heuristic bias.Heuristics are cognitive shortcuts that may introduce bias and contribute to error. There is no standardized instrument available to quantify heuristic bias in clinical decision making, limiting future study of educational interventions ...
Megan, Richie, S Andrew, Josephson
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Snap Judgements and Availability Bias in Travel Decisions

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2021
Past research has explored how travelers make economic decisions, but only a small number of papers look at financial nudges and price anchoring—how they might cause travelers to make snap judgements about value that undermine rational economic principles. This research explores the behavioral response to different kinds of incentives.
Riggs, William, Yudowitz, Louis
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Gender bias and the availability of business loans

Journal of Business Venturing, 1993
Abstract Social structure, values, and gender socialization have undoubtedly disadvantaged women in the process of preparing for a career in business, and there is a widely held view that women are subject to discrimination by financial institutions. However, the “evidence” to verify this belief has largely been from studies where women have claimed ...
Michael Fay, Lesley Williams
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Best Available Evidence or Truth for the Moment: Bias in Research

Nursing Science Quarterly, 2021
The subject of this column is the nature of bias in both quantitative and qualitative research. To that end, bias will be defined and then both the processes by which it enters into research will be entertained along with discussions on how to ameliorate this problem.
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THINKING TOOLS: AVAILABILITY BIAS

Think, 2010
Thinking Tools is a regular feature that introduces tips and pointers on thinking clearly and rigorously.
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Research on the Application of Availability Bias on Decision Making

Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media, 2023
The availability bias is a common cognitive bias that influences decision-making in individuals. The basis for the bias is the availability heuristic, which involves judging the likelihood of an event based on the ease with which examples come to mind. The article examines the definition of the availability heuristic, its impact on decision-making, and
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Bias Due to Non-Availability in Sampling Surveys

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1950
Abstract A technique is presented for the treatment of errors introduced into sampling surveys due to the non-availability of respondents. The expected cost and variance of the sample survey are expressed as functions of sample size and of the number of call-backs made on the non-availables.
Z. W. Birnbaum, Monroe G. Sirken
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Attribute availability and the shape bias in children's category generalization

Cognitive Development, 1991
Abstract The tendency of young children to focus on the component attribute of shape in making category decisions was assessed in three experiments. In Experiment 1a, preschoolers made category generalizations to novel objects primarily on the basis of single attributes of those objects.
Thomas B. Ward, Angela H. Becker, Sally Duffin Hass, Edward Vela   +3 more
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The Hindsight Bias: The Role of the Availability Heuristic and Perceived Risk

Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1994
The influence of outcome knowledge (Fischhoff, 1975) and the availability heuristic (Tversky & Kahneman, 1974) on judgments of perceived risk was explored here. This study found that subjects were capable of making relatively appropriate probability estimates for disease, accident, and homicide in foresight, but they made relatively biased estimated in
Robert P. Agans, Leigh S. Shaffer
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Availability bias and artificial intelligence

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2023
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