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John Spacey, October 18, 2015 updated on January 29, 2020
Anchoring is overfocus on the first piece of information that you acquire. In many cases, this information is obtained from a question.ExampleResearchers have shown that people answer questions differently depending on reference information they find in the question itself. For example, if you ask if an average apple has more or less than 100 seeds, people will correctly guess less. However, when you then ask how many seeds an apple typically contains, people will guess a higher number on average because they may anchor on the high reference number in the first question.
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