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Drawn from what Hannah Ritchie said
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Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World
When someone is asked to reflect on their own life, they draw on a wide range of experiences. When people are asked about “the world”, they recall a very small number of recent events (the availability bias).
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Ritchie explains collective pessimism as an availability effect: people judge their own life on everything that has happened to them and the world on a handful of recent, mostly bad, events. Durov says roughly 95 percent of news exists to make you buy, support, fight or donate. One locates the distortion in the reader and the other in the publisher, and the remedy differs accordingly.
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