Normalcy Bias
The tendency to believe that things will always function the way they normally have, often leading to underestimation of disaster risks.
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Zero-Risk Bias
A cognitive bias where people prefer the option that seems to eliminate risk entirely, even if another option offers a greater overall benefit.
Hard-Easy Effect
A cognitive bias where people overestimate the probability of success for difficult tasks and underestimate it for easy tasks.
Representativeness
Representativeness is a heuristic in decision-making where individuals judge the probability of an event based on how much it resembles a typical case.
Regressive Bias
A cognitive bias where individuals overestimate the likelihood of extreme events regressing to the mean.
Cross Validation
A statistical method used to assess the generalizability of a model to unseen data, involving partitioning a dataset into subsets for training and validation.
Pessimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of negative outcomes.
Optimism Bias
A cognitive bias that causes people to believe they are less likely to experience negative events and more likely to experience positive events than others.
First Click Testing
A usability testing method that measures the first click users make on a webpage to determine if they can successfully navigate to their goal.