Recognition heuristic
Name recognition can act as a shortcut for predicting success when familiarity reflects underlying performance. A simple recognition signal can sometimes compete with formal rankings.
Episodes that teach this
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The Power of Simple Approaches | Future IQ
· explained at 9:45
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you ask people to identify which players names they recognize, that's it.
Examples & generalisations
Concrete examples: predicting Wimbledon winners from recognition of players' names