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    It is not the case that Ecological rationality research (Gigerenzen & Todd, 1999) demonstrates that heuristics are not failures of global rationality but context-sensitive adaptations that outperform optimization in uncertain environments.

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    • 1.Heuristics systematically produce well-documented biases (anchoring, availability) that harm decision-making even in uncertain contexts.
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    • 2.Comparing heuristics to optimization requires defining which optimization standard; they may fail against appropriate Bayesian benchmarks.
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    • 3.Context-sensitivity claim is unfalsifiable—any heuristic failure can be dismissed as 'wrong context' rather than genuine limitation.
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    • 1.Real-world environments have incomplete information and time constraints that make exhaustive optimization computationally infeasible.
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    • 2.Empirical studies show fast-and-frugal heuristics often match or exceed complex statistical models in prediction accuracy on new data.
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    • 3.Evolution shaped human cognition for ancestral environments where simple decision rules minimized costly errors better than deliberation.
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