Scope neglect, also called scope insensitivity, is a cognitive bias in which a person's valuation of a problem fails to scale in proportion to the problem's actual size, so that a much larger version of a harm or benefit is not valued proportionally more than a smaller version of it. It is described as a specific form of the broader extension neglect.
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Core ClaimScope neglect is a cognitive bias in which people's valuation of a problem fails to scale in proportion to the problem's actual size, so a much larger harm or benefit is not valued proportionally more than a smaller one. 1 Classification
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Scope neglect or scope insensitivity is a cognitive bias that occurs when the valuation of a problem is not valued with a multiplicative relationship to its size.
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Scope neglect, also called scope insensitivity, is a cognitive bias in which a person's valuation of a problem fails to scale in proportion to the problem's actual size, so that a much larger version of a harm or benefit is not valued proportionally more than a smaller version of it.
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