representativeness

Judging probability by representativeness is indeed associated with systematic errors.

Daniel Kahneman - Autobiography 2003

Because the definition of representativeness is abstract and a little hard to understand, let’s look at some more concrete examples of how this heuristic works, and how it can lead to major mistakes in many situations.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

Because the definition of representativeness is abstract and a little hard to understand, let’s look at some more concrete examples of how this heuristic works, and how it can lead to major mistakes in many situations.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation David Dreman 1998

The goodness is the specific representativeness, that is, the average group-represented-to-majority ratio.

"Model" Citizens 2009

He admitted that Senator North had proved himself possessed of the faculty of what Herbert Spencer calls representativeness more than once, but men as wise and calm in their judgment had been mistaken before.

Senator North Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Hamilton had in an extraordinary degree the faculty which Spencer calls representativeness; but there were some things he could not foresee, and one was that when the Republicans insinuated themselves to power they would rest on their laurels, let play the inherent conservatism of man, and gladly accept the goods the Federal party had provided them.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

This tendency to extrapolate recent history into the future-called "representativeness bias" in behavioral finance-leads to poor investment decisions and can be hazardous to your investment health.

Forbes.com: News Gregg S. Fisher 2011

And psychological experiments show that the human brain is wired in a way that creates unfounded impressions that what one has seen or experienced is a constant reality, and that an isolated event or series of events may be interpreted as a predictable pattern (a phenomenon known as the representativeness heuristic).

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sean Gordon 2009

And psychological experiments show that the human brain is wired in a way that creates unfounded impressions that what one has seen or experienced is a constant reality, and that an isolated event or series of events may be interpreted as a predictable pattern (a phenomenon known as the representativeness heuristic).

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Sean Gordon 2009

Journal of Women's History 2, no. 1 (1990): 169-82, addresses this issue in her critique of the concept of "representativeness" as a presumptive basis for evaluating the "truth" content of women's oral testimony.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005