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I suspect everyone is wrong, but we're all subject to an availability bias. We assume that things we actively notice other people doing in public are represent
by mumblemumble 5y ago
I suspect everyone is wrong, but we're all subject to an availability bias.
We assume that things we actively notice other people doing in public are representative of what everyone (or everyone in some category to which we've assigned that person) is doing. We don't notice all the people not engaging in that behavior because they're not noteworthy.
- long_time_gone 5y ago==We assume that things we actively notice other people doing in public are representative of what everyone (or everyone in some category to which we've assigned that person) is doing. We don't notice all the people not engaging in that behavior because they're not noteworthy.== Doesn’t this comment include it’s own set of biases?
- playpause 5y agoSuch as?
- mumblemumble 5y agoI think that what they were getting at is that people noticing and commenting on things is more noticeable than people not doing so. Which would imply that there's a tendency to notice the noticing more than the not noticing, and, as a consequence, over-estimate how often people do it. It's a good point.