recency bias
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editNoun
editrecency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)
- A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
- 2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Recency bias once saw Robbie Williams come sixth in a poll of 600,000 to decide the most influential musicians of the last millennium – one place above Mozart – so we should be wary of getting carried away in the moment.
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editcognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones
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edit- recency bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia