It is a psychological bias called availability heuristic: https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/availability-heuristic/ https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/av

It is a psychological bias called availability heuristic: https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/availability-heuristic/ https://www.scribbr.com/research-bias/availability-heuristic... They use funny example in this article: When asked if falling airplane parts or shark attacks are a more likely cause of death in the United States, most people would say shark attacks. In reality, the chances of dying from falling airplane parts are 30 times greater than the chances of being killed by a shark. Would be interesting to check if today people would estimate the risk of being killed by falling Boeing door higher than shark attack - bias predicts they would.