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The Drunkard's Search or the Streetlight Effect [Cognitive Bias] - Right Attitudes
An old parable (sometimes ascribed to Mulla Nasreddin, the 13th Century witty philosopher from today’s Turkey) tells of a drunkard searching under a street lamp for keys he has lost because the light there is better than where he thinks he lost them. A police officer sees a drunken man intently searching the ground near […]