Economist-style Recency Bias Chart Prompt
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Economist-style Recency Bias Chart Prompt A detailed image generation prompt for an Economist-style infographic chart illustrating recency bias in investing, with specific layout, colors, data, and annotations.
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concept: "Recency bias - most people decide on the last thing they felt"
headline: "Most decisions are based on the last thing felt. Charts break that loop."
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The Economist style. White background #FFFFFF. Red square top-left.
Square format.
Category label: "BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS"
Bold headline: "The last thing read, not the longest trend"
Italic subhead: "Why recency bias is the most expensive cognitive error"
MAIN CHART: Annotated timeline - a rolling 3-year window vs. 20-year window
showing how conclusions change based on window chosen.
DATA: Fictional "public confidence in the economy" index 2004–2024.
Full line (20-year): Shows a long slow improvement overall, with several dips.
Color: gray.
Rolling 3-year highlighted WINDOW: Moves along the chart.
At PEAK of a 3-year window: "People feel great. Buy houses."
At TROUGH: "People feel terrible. Sell stocks."
Both annotations show where 3-year window created wrong conclusions
relative to the 20-year trend.
Red #E3120B accent on horizontal gridlines only.
ANNOTATION: "The person with 20 years of charts has 6× fewer emotional decisions."
BOTTOM: Small gray italic: "Dalbar QAIB Report · Cognitive bias in investing literature"
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- Source: https://x.com/maxescu/status/2045771704966725788
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