streetlight effect

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of observational bias whereby people only search for something where it is easiest to look.

词形变化

streetlight effects plural

词源

An allusion to an old joke in which a drunkard searches for his keys (lost elsewhere) under a streetlight because that is where the light is.
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