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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Initialism of what you see is all there is: a cognitive bias where decisions are made based only on the information that is immediately available. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Etymology

Coined by Daniel Kahneman, with reference to earlier WYSIWYG.

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