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- noun The study of
heuristic methods and principles.
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Examples
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None of these heuristics is perfect, but they're all better than nothing.
Who to Trust?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So they use certain heuristics and trust certain sources to indicate what they should think about a complex bill.
Matthew Yglesias » Poll Shows That Passing the Bill Improves Democrats’ Popularity 2010
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I liked the suggestion above of strategy dealing with long-term heuristics and tactics dealing with the local level where those heuristics break down.
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Well, maybe these don't fit the precise definition of "heuristics" -- but they're rules of thumb I apply when deciding what to think or how to act, mostly without quite realizing that I'm using them.
Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life 2010
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Well, maybe these don't fit the precise definition of "heuristics" -- but they're rules of thumb I apply when deciding what to think or how to act, mostly without quite realizing that I'm using them.
Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life 2010
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The agents use a series of simple rules - known as heuristics - to find the optimal price for both buyer and seller based on information provided by both parties.
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I realized that I have my own idiosyncratic collection of "heuristics" for making decisions and setting priorities.
Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life 2010
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I realized that I have my own idiosyncratic collection of "heuristics" for making decisions and setting priorities.
Gretchen Rubin: Reconsider the Rules of Thumb You Use in Everyday Life 2010
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KAV uses improved "heuristics" for determining new viruses, and is more flexible.
Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: Kaspersky 2009 2009
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Hunches, gut feelings, intuition — these are all colloquial English for what Gigerenzer and his colleagues call "heuristics," fast and efficient cognitive shortcuts that (according to the emerging theory) can help us negotiate life, if we let them.
softkay commented on the word heuristics
Related: Trial and Error
February 22, 2008
akhil commented on the word heuristics
Do you hate or love this word?
February 22, 2008
mollusque commented on the word heuristics
I like it better than adaptive management.
February 22, 2008
seanahan commented on the word heuristics
Well, it comes up in the context of algorithms all the time, so I don't really have strong feelings about it either way.
February 25, 2008
yarb commented on the word heuristics
I'm strongly opposed.
February 26, 2008