Heuristics

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The term "Heuristic" can have more than one meaning.

As an adjective, it may enable a person to discover or learn something for themselves. As a noun, it can be a process or method.

If something is unknown, to abstract or difficult to understand you may use a term that is "good enough" as a heuristic to temporarily describe or identify that thing or idea. But if the definition is not "good enough" it may produce "cognitive biases" and error. Heuristics may be used in the quest for right reason.

The most fundamental heuristic process is trial and error, which can be used in everything from matching nuts and bolts to finding the values of variables in algebra problems.

Heuristics may include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, a guesstimate, profiling, or common sense. There are many labeled heuristics availability, representativeness, familiarity, and anchoring... as an example affect heuristic is the notion that people often make decisions based on their feelings or emotions about the topic at hand.

The recognition heuristic, also called the recognition principle. If one of two objects is recognized and the other is not, the recognized object, idea or precept is given a higher value in respect to validity or importance.


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