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noun
A kind of observational bias whereby people only search for something where it is easiest to look.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
An allusion to an old joke in which a drunkard searches for his keys (lost elsewhere) under a streetlight because that is where the light is.
