Time-saving bias is a cognitive bias describing people's tendency to misestimate the amount of time that would actually be saved by increasing their speed, such as when driving faster.
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Core ClaimTime-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed. 1 First Described Year Classification
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Time-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed.
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Svenson, O. (2008). "Decisions among time saving options: When intuition is strong and wrong". Acta Psychologica. 127 (2). Elsevier BV: 501-509.
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Time-saving bias is a concept that describes people's tendency to misestimate the time that could be saved (or lost) when increasing (or decreasing) speed.
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