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Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 30 April 1982
Amos Tversky, Daniel Kahneman
Citations1,262

Abstract

Much recent research has been concerned with the validity and consistency of frequency and probability judgments. Little is known, however, about the psychological mechanisms by which people evaluate the frequency of classes or the likelihood of events.

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Decision Sciences