Behavioral Biases in Electoral Coverage
posted by Dave Hoffman
John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei have a great article up on Politico explaining why they (and others) did such a bad job of pre-reporting Hillary Clinton’s win in New Hampshire. The article provides a real-world example of a litany of behavioral biases – availability cascades, source bias and other information processing errors, overconfidence, etc. – and could provide a nice illustration for folks attempting to illustrate these phenomenon outside of laboratory settings.
January 10, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Posted in: Behavioral Law and Economics
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