recall

← recall

framing effect termbias

logically equivalent statements produce different decisions

'90% survival rate' vs '10% mortality rate' — same number, different choices. People avoid losses more strongly than they pursue equivalent gains, so framing as a loss makes options sound worse. Powerful in product copy, RFCs, blameless postmortems. The same fact ('we shipped it 2 days late' vs 'we got it out before the holiday') can land entirely differently.

topics: communication, decision-theory

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