heuristic

Example Sentences

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One could heuristically argue, therefore that we should see roughly the same number of women as men working in the field of mathematics.

From Scientific American

They then realised that they were hiring people from similar universities who had learned under similar professors and had absorbed a similar range of concepts, heuristics and models.

From BBC

In the past, physicians have performed this task by rapidly interpreting a patient's vital signs, physical exam findings, test results, and other data points, using heuristics learned through years of on-the-job medical training.

From Salon

As great psychologists such as Daniel Kahneman demonstrated years ago, we fall victim to the “availability heuristic,” through which, because tragic events are so memorable, we drastically overestimate their probability.

From Washington Post

Ultimately, technology that tries to reduce the world to binary classifications based on simple heuristics is always going to fail when faced with the variety and complexity of human expression.

From The Verge