Representative Heuristic in race · Global Voices
Sokari Ekine

Kenyan Diasporan blogger, Curious,  discusses “the representative heuristic”.  For example, the representative heuristic (Wikipedia) would be like this:  “after a report in the media that, for example, black people are x times more likely to commit gun crime (hypothetically), or that muslims are x times more likely to suicide bomb (hypothetically), the representative heuristic will have people generally expecting a random black person to shoot them (irrespective of the black person's context) or expect any random muslim to blow them up.”