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recency biases

recency biases is the plural of recency bias.

Meaning of recency bias

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

Questions about recency biases

What is recency biases the plural of?
Recency biases is the plural of recency bias.

Words near recency biases in the dictionary

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

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