Tenoke comments on Positive Queries - How Fetching - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tenoke 30 April 2014 09:40:22AM *  0 points [-]

Help, having a brain blank. I can come up w examples of times something happened, but not times something didnt-happen. What heuristic?

— Kate Donovan (@donovanable) April 29, 2014

As the first person who has answered on twitter points out (before they got rejected) - this is a subset of the availability heuristic.

Comment author: Donovanable 30 April 2014 07:39:06PM 1 point [-]

I'm afraid my point was a victim of the 140 character limit. I don't think I was quite looking for the availability heuristic (which I'd already checked and discarded), but ended up tweaking my example to use it in the blog.