Showing posts with label availability heuristic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label availability heuristic. Show all posts
Friday
The Atlantic's Google Earth Puzzles
The Atlantic has set some entertaining geographical puzzles, using images from Google Earth. They're challenging, but the last two are multiple choice, so you have a one in three chance of getting it right even if you guess.
So far there have been three:
The first is here.
The second is here.
And the third is here.
The screenshot is one of the images - many of them are beautiful, and all are interesting. Take a guess before you look at the possible answers to get a look at the availability heuristic in action.
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