Heather is looking for a new album to listen to and searches all throughout the music store, comparing several different albums.
She finds one album that two of her friends have said they really liked. Heather thinks that because two of her friends liked it, she should like it; however, she does not account for the fact that she has many other friends who have not told her their opinions on the album. What type of faulty thinking is this an example of?
This faulty thinking is an example of <em>present bias</em>. Heather thinks she should like the album because two of her friends liked it. But, she is not taking into account the information that is not present, the opinion of her other friends. She is ignoring the information that is not present at the moment.
