tante sidonia
2018-02-17 14:02:23 UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/17/steven-pinker-media-negative-news
...The nature of news is likely to distort people’s view of the world
because of a mental bug that the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel
Kahneman called the Availability heuristic: people estimate the
probability of an event or the frequency of a kind of thing by the ease
with which instances come to mind. In many walks of life this is a
serviceable rule of thumb. But whenever a memory turns up high in the
result list of the mind’s search engine for reasons other than
frequency—because it is recent, vivid, gory, distinctive, or
upsetting—people will overestimate how likely it is in the world....
...The nature of news is likely to distort people’s view of the world
because of a mental bug that the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel
Kahneman called the Availability heuristic: people estimate the
probability of an event or the frequency of a kind of thing by the ease
with which instances come to mind. In many walks of life this is a
serviceable rule of thumb. But whenever a memory turns up high in the
result list of the mind’s search engine for reasons other than
frequency—because it is recent, vivid, gory, distinctive, or
upsetting—people will overestimate how likely it is in the world....