Business Forecasting
The availability heuristic is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. This can lead individuals to overestimate the importance or likelihood of events based on how easily they can recall similar instances, which can be particularly problematic in forecasting as it may skew predictions and analyses.
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