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===Education=== A study done by Craig R. Fox provides an example of how availability heuristics can work in the classroom. In this study, Fox tests whether the difficulty of recall influences judgment, specifically with course evaluations among college students. In his study he had two groups complete a course evaluation form. He asked the first group to write two recommended improvements for the course (a relatively easy task) and then write two positives about the class. The second group was asked to write ten suggestions where the professor could improve (a relatively difficult task) and then write two positive comments about the course. At the end of the evaluation, both groups were asked to rate the course on a scale from one to seven. The results showed that students asked to write ten suggestions (difficult task) rated the course less harshly because it was more difficult for them to recall the information. Most of the students in the group that was asked to fill in 10 suggestions didn't fill in more than two being unable to recall more instances where they were unsatisfied with the class. Students asked to do the easier evaluation with only two complaints had less difficulty in terms of availability of information, so they rated the course more harshly.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fox |first=Craig R. |year=2006 |title=The availability heuristic in the classroom: How soliciting more criticism can boost your course ratings |url=http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm06020.pdf |journal=Judgment and Decision Making |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=86β90 |doi=10.1017/S1930297500000371 |s2cid=4466291 |issn=1930-2975}}</ref> Another study by Marie Geurten sought to test the availability heuristic in young children. Children of varying ages (from 4 to 8 years old) were tasked with generating a list of names, with some being asked for a shorter list and some for a longer list. The study then assessed the children's own impressions of their ability to recall names. Those children who were tasked with generating a shorter list had a higher perception of their ability to recall names than those who were tasked with generating a longer list. According to the study, this suggests that the children based their assessment of their recall abilities on their subjective experience of ease of recall.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Geurten |first1=Marie |last2=Willems |first2=Sylvie |last3=Germain |first3=Sophie |last4=Meulemans |first4=Thierry |date=November 2015 |title=Less is more: The availability heuristic in early childhood |url=https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/186448 |journal=British Journal of Developmental Psychology |language=en |volume=33 |issue=4 |pages=405β410 |doi=10.1111/bjdp.12114 |pmid=26332945 |hdl=2268/186448}}</ref>
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