Availability Heuristic - LessWrong - r  ## Metadata - Author: **r** - Full Title: Availability Heuristic - LessWrong - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/availability-heuristic ## Highlights - The availability heuristic judges the probability of events by the ease with which examples come to mind. Sometimes this heuristic serves us well, but the map is not the territory; the frequency with which concepts occur in your thoughts need not reflect the frequency with which they occur in reality