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Comment author: RomeoStevens 15 October 2013 08:57:34PM 2 points [-]

I believe there is a named cognitive bias for this concept but a preliminary search hasn't turned anything up: The tendency to use measures or proxies that are easily available rather than the ones that most accurately measure the cared about outcome.

anyone know what it might be called?

Comment author: gwern 15 October 2013 09:13:15PM 9 points [-]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution ?

Comment author: RomeoStevens 15 October 2013 09:17:42PM 2 points [-]

gwern to the rescue again! I had not seen this article before, thank you.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 16 October 2013 03:18:51PM 4 points [-]

LW article: the Substitution Principle.

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