The Availability Heuristic
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The Availability Heuristic

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Tversky and Kahneman asked subjects whether more English words begin with the letter K or have K as their third letter. Most said K-first, wrong by a...

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Gigerenzer estimated that American road fatalities increased by approximately 1,595 deaths in the twelve months following September 11, 2001
+Gigerenzer estimated that American road fatalities increased by approximately 350 additional deaths in the three months following September 11, 2001

Why this is better

The body text correction had landed, but the FAQ field (a separate JSON-LD schema field) still contained the original unverified '1,595 deaths / twelve months' claim in its 9/11 road-fatality answer. Fixed the FAQ entry to match the corrected body text figure.

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