streetlight effect

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释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A kind of observational bias whereby people only search for something where it is easiest to look.

词源

An allusion to an old joke in which a drunkard searches for his keys (lost elsewhere) under a streetlight because that is where the light is.

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