The "Heuristics Are Just Guesses" Error
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It is an error to treat heuristics as failures of reasoning rather than as efficient strategies with predictable costs.
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A doctor's rapid pattern recognition is heuristic and outperforms exhaustive checking under time pressure.
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Heuristics are studied through their failures, which makes them look like defects. They are the ordinary mode.
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