The Availability Heuristic is a cognitive bias that affects how people make decisions and judgments. It is based on the idea that the more easily an example or concept can be recalled, the more likely it is to be true. This heuristic is used to assess the probability of an event occurring based
The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. This heuristic, operating on the notion that, if something can be quickly recalled, it must be important, or at least more important than alternative solutions not as readily recalled, is inherently biased toward recently acquired information.