Heuristics Explained

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1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected three citation problems: an Amazon recommendation-purchase figure misattributed to Amazon's own reporting when it actually traces to a disputed 2013 McKinsey estimate; a precise 25 percent crew-accident statistic attached to Robert Helmreich's real aviation safety research with no traceable source; and a heart-attack diagnostic heuristic study correctly described but misdated to a 2007 Psychological Science paper when it is actually Green and Mehr's 1997 study.

   Before

   35 percent recommendation-purchase figure attributed directly to Amazon; 25 percent crew-accident figure attributed to Helmreich with no real source; heart-attack diagnosis study cited as 2007 Psychological Science.

   After

   Recommendation-purchase figure now correctly attributed to a 2013 McKinsey estimate, noted as unverified; crew-accident claim softened to what Helmreich's real research actually supports, without the unverified percentage; diagnostic heuristic study now correctly cited as Green and Mehr, 1997.

   Why: Verified each named-study and named-statistic claim against the real research literature; found real researchers and real phenomena with unverified, misattributed, or mis-cited specifics layered on top.

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