recency bias

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recency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)

  1. A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
    • 2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian‎:
      Recency bias once saw Robbie Williams come sixth in a poll of 600,000 to decide the most influential musicians of the last millennium – one place above Mozart – so we should be wary of getting carried away in the moment.

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