
Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker
The Joe Walker Podcast
Is the Availability Bias the Most Pervasive?
If I had to guess, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, you would pick the availability bias as the second most pervasive bias after my side bias. Could this perception just be the result of the availability bias itself? Like maybe there's something more salient about examples of the availability biased because they seem more blatantly stupid. Whereas in comparison, representiveness is more contested. You could say the Linda problem substantially evaporates when it's presented in frequentist terms.
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