(1904-96). Alger Hiss, the former United States diplomat who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union throughout World War II and the postwar restoration, was convicted of perjury in 1950 for having denied he passed Department of State secrets to a Communist courier.
As used here , simulation is defined as the process of creating a model ( i.e. , an abstract representation or facsimile ) of an existing or proposed system ( e.g. , a project , a business , a mine , a watershed , a forest , the organs in your body ) in order to identify and understand those factors which control the system and / or to predict ( ...
simulation heuristic. This is the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the ease with which you can imagine (or mentally simulate) an event. You mispredict the possibility of this happening because of the ease with which we can imagine it.