WYSIATI

What You See Is All There Is
is a phenomenon that causes us to focus on existing evidence and ignore absent evidence
- will create a coherent story based on limited evidence
- these impressions/intuitions can be endorsed by
  - they will become values and beliefs
- that’s why people jump to conclusions, assume bad intentions, are “victims” of biases and buy into conspirational theories
Problems
- - people don’t really understand statistics
  - they take small numbers and conclude that’s representative for the whole population
  - if one personally observes “one” incident, he/she is more likely to think the same incident might apply to the whole population
    - Racism
    - Terrorism especially in combination with