Fancy academic word #978 that I have never really understood the point of: heuristic
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Is it a favourite of Team Cogsci?
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it's a specific technical term in judgement and decision making https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics_in_judgment_and_decision-making …
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Huh. Ta.
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so in many ways, that word is pretty useful for us
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Well in that case so long as you all tell everyone else what it means when you use it, I'm happy.
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The real problem is people who don't know the definition fo the word using it (I would argue defiantly) incorrectly
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I guess also important to differentiate between use in comp sci and use in psychology
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I have degrees in both aforementioned related fields & work in cogsci. I guess I've forgotten compsci def.
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