How Good is Your Memory?

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Here’s a little memory test designed by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973) to reveal a cognitive blindspot.

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References

Tversky, A,, & Kahneman, D. (1973) Availability: a heuristic For judging frequency and probability. Cognitive Psychology, 5, 207-302.

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“How good is your memory?” was created by Olivia Kang, Kirsten Morehouse, Evan Younger, and Mahzarin Banaji, based on research by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1973).

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