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Scope neglect

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Applied to On Caring by farrah.dingal at 10mo

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Applied to Stefan Schubert: Why aren't people donating more effectively? by MichaelA at 1y

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Applied to Rational altruism and risk aversion by MichaelA at 1y

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Applied to Giving more won't make you happier by MichaelA at 1y

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Applied to Sequence thinking vs. cluster thinking by MichaelA at 1y

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Applied to Scope Insensitivity by MichaelA at 1y

MichaelA v1.1.0Apr 26th 2021 (+17) Added expected value to related entries 2

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See here for discussion of whether we should have one entry for each of many cognitive biases vs just one or a small set of entries covering a bunch of cognitive biases.

Perhaps Scope insensitivity would be a better name?

8Pablo1y

'Scope neglect' is about four times more popular on Google than 'scope insensitivity', and the name preferred by Wikipedia, so I would keep it.

MichaelA v1.0.0Apr 26th 2021 (+67) 2

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Created by MichaelA at 1y