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availability heuristic

tendency and mental shortcut of preferring an item with more available information
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availability heuristic

Summary

availability heuristic is a cognitive bias[1]. It draws 253 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #18 of 95).[2]

Key Facts

  • availability heuristic's instance of is recorded as cognitive bias[3].
  • availability heuristic's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[4].
  • availability heuristic's has part is recorded as sunk cost[5].
  • availability heuristic's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02447h[6].
  • availability heuristic's described at URL is recorded as https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2011/08/mental-model-availability-bias/[7].
  • availability heuristic's Quora topic ID is recorded as Availability-Heuristic[8].
  • availability heuristic's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 186150311[9].
  • availability heuristic's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 26669[10].

Why It Matters

availability heuristic draws 253 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #18 of 95).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . fs.blog. fs.blog. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). availability heuristic. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/availability-heuristic
MLA “availability heuristic.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/availability-heuristic.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_availability-heuristic_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{availability heuristic}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/availability-heuristic}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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