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Title: THE PERSISTENCE OF SOCIAL HEURISTICS IN BACKCOUNTRY DECISION-MAKING: AN ANALYSIS OF RESORT-ADJACENT USERS
Date: 2026-09-28
Authors: Duncan Knight
Description: Avalanche fatalities in recreational backcountry settings remain predominantly linked to human judgment errors rather than environmental unpredictabil...
Object ID: ISSW2026_P4.11.pdf
Keywords: avalanche decision-making, social heuristics, social proof, backcountry skiing, risk perception, group dynamics.
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Title: A Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making and the relevance of stability test
Date: 2018-10-07
Authors: Philip A. Ebert
Description: In this paper, I explore a Bayesian perspective on avalanche decision-making. I motivate this general outlook by introducing a well-known cognitive bi...
Object ID: ISSW2018_P15.12.pdf
Keywords: bayesian reasoning, avalanche decision-making, avalanche education, base-rate fallacy, snow science, risk management
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Title: The Norwegian Avalanche Card
Date: 2014-09-29
Authors: Birgit K. Rustad
Description: The Norwegian national avalanche bulletins include avalanche problems to improve communication of the current avalanche danger to the public. In order...
Object ID: ISSW14_paper_P4.36.pdf
Keywords: avalanche card, avalanche decision-making tool, avalanche problem, avalanche risk
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