Daniel Kahneman book Thinking, Fast and Slow
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011), Chapter 13, "Availability, emotion, and risk", page 138 (ISBN 9780141033570).
“The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.”
— Leonard Mlodinow, book The Drunkard's Walk
Source: The Drunkard's Walk, Chapter 2, The Laws Of Truths And Half - Truths, p. 28
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