a>). However, a statistical analysis of the actual crime data shows that in fact violent crime has steadily <em>decreased</em> since the 1990’s. Intuition fails us because we rely upon best guesses (which psychologists refer to as <em>heuristics</em>) that can often get it wrong. For example, humans often judge the prevalence of some event (like violent crime) using an <em>availability heuristic</em> – that is, how easily can we think of an example of violent crime. For this reason, our judgments of inc