Availability heuristic

Biases are present in our everyday lives and they are everywhere. It was very easy to think of a situation in which I witnessed bias attitudes and saw how these attitudes had an effect on people’s lives (or animal lives). I am going to use the example of breed discrimination against the Pit Bull Terrier. Just about any situation involving the Pit Bull Terrier has been full of biases and assumptions. I have had Pit Bulls as pets my whole life; therefore, I am no stranger to these biases. I have…

I rarely enjoy reading the introduction when I read a book. Most of time I find them dull and full of, well, introductory but when I started reading the introduction of Nudge, I was instantly hooked with the analogy that the authors provided, what will Carolyne do? Which of the 5 possible options presented in the book will she choose? Simply, I was caught up in the story, and who doesn’t like a good story! Regardless of the fact that this is book is all about economics and economical behavior, I…

Academic Paper Review Andrzej A. Huczynski and David A. Buchanan 1985, 2007. Organisational Behavior.731-761 At the beginning of the chapter, Huczynski and Buchanan both acceded that decision making is one of the most important element in an organisation. Decision making are made by both manager and none manager and plays as a backbone in all organisation. Decision making is one of the key elements of formal organisation apart from specialization, incentives and authority (Barnard 1938).…

The Availability heuristic is when an individual makes a decision based on what comes to mind first. In Clarks case if he were to use this thought process he'd consider applying for colleges that are very well known or that he's previously heard of such as; Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia or Princeton. Clark wouldn't look into other colleges that could be closer to wherever he lives or even bother to do more research on other colleges. Clark could miss out on what could benefit him most.…

Parents bear the responsibility of making life-shaping decisions in issues such as education and healthcare for their children. The growing skepticism against vaccines and the healthcare industry is worrying because it can potentially cause preventable deaths. In this paper, I will be responding to Sarah Pope’s entry in The Healthy Home Economist where she argued against vaccines. Pope established her family’s medical background to show that her claims are not unfounded. It is ironic that she…

Our class notes define availability as, “The ease with which instances or occurrences can be brought to mind.” With this, perhaps it is possible that the officers more easily imagined a poor outcome of this situation, if they did not act the way they did. It may be as much as they…

The extent that decision making biases placed in the decisions for the Deepwater Horizon case and the specific bias present was availability heuristic bias. The crew on the Deepwater Horizon had never encountered a situation of this magnitude before. The employees of Transocean and BP were arguing about what to do because of the negativity test. They were both relying on information from memory on how to handle the situation. Another biases present in this situation was escalation of…

along. There are cognitive factors, and social factors that lead to someone having a racial bias. One cognitive factor of why racial bias is formed is availability heuristic. This means a person evaluates the probability of events by what is available to them. Studies have shown that people can assess availability quickly and accurately. (Availability) So give the public access to crime, the media, then what they see will become what they predict. The media shows more crimes black committe…

beliefs. This eliminates the effort of evaluating each new situation. Dispositional inferences which is a judgment on a person’s behavior due to their disposition of personality. However, this can lead to correspondence bias. The next is cognitive heuristics. There are different categories…

by Elizabeth Loftus, I believe that to a great extent, memory is not a reliable source of knowledge because it can be distorted, contaminated, and even falsely imagined. Memory decay, distorted memory, hindsight bias, consistency bias, the availability heuristic bias and suggestibility- are all problems that beset our reliance on memory.“I was there. I saw it.” The phrase that many witnesses confidently use in courts of law- to generally support or undermine the position of the perpetrators…