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recency bias

recency bias noun: a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.

Noun

recency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)

  1. (usually) A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
    • 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.2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    recency effect

Synonyms of recency bias

Forms of recency bias

pluralrecency biases

Questions about recency bias

What does recency bias mean?
Recency bias means a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
What part of speech is recency bias?
Recency bias is a noun.
What is the plural of recency bias?
The plural of recency bias is recency biases.

Words near recency bias in the dictionary

  1. recementing
  2. recementings
  3. recements
  4. recencies
  5. recency
  6. recency bias
  7. recency biases
  8. recency effect
  9. Recendez
  10. Recendezes
  11. Recendiz

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