Smart people who make simple heuristics work

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (5):765-765 (2000)
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Abstract

To evaluate the success of simple heuristics we need to know more about how a relevant heuristic is chosen and how we learn which cues are relevant. These meta-abilities are at the core of ecological rationality, rather than the individual heuristics.

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