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Anchoring (Behavioural Economics)
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Last updated 21 Mar 2021
Anchoring is the use of (usually) irrelevant information as a reference point for helping to make an estimate of an unknown piece of information. In other words, people use an “anchor point” of an event or a value that they know in order to make a decision or estimate. Behavioural scientists describe this as a cognitive bias.
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