Normalcy bias

Normalcy bias - tendency for people to believe that things will always function the way they normally have functioned and therefore to underestimate both the likelihood of a disaster and its possible effects. Article “Normalcy bias” in English Wikipedia has 34.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 22 references and 7 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Normalcy bias” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Normalcy bias”, its content was written by 73 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 119 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 166 times in English Wikipedia and cited 622 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #35945 in December 2017
• Global: #68182 in March 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #34959 in March 2020
• Global: #26655 in March 2020

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Normalcy bias		34.5274
2	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		27.3941
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		25.654
4	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		24.4399
5	French (fr) Biais de normalité		22.1662
6	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		18.9569
7	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		17.0538
8	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		1.7199
9	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		0.5472
10	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		0.3675

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Normalcy bias" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		1 117 145
2	English (en) Normalcy bias		743 642
3	French (fr) Biais de normalité		8 279
4	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		7 686
5	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		7 378
6	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		4 052
7	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		2 232
8	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		1 755
9	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		947
10	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		501

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Normalcy bias" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Normalcy bias		3 619
2	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		3 494
3	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		289
4	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		209
5	French (fr) Biais de normalité		155
6	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		30
7	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		21
8	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		19
9	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		10
10	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Normalcy bias" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Normalcy bias		73
2	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		17
3	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		5
4	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		5
5	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		4
6	French (fr) Biais de normalité		4
7	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		4
8	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		4
9	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		2
10	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Normalcy bias" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Normalcy bias		1
2	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		1
3	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		0
4	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		0
5	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		0
6	French (fr) Biais de normalité		0
7	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		0
8	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		0
9	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		0
10	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Normalcy bias" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Chinese (zh) 正常化偏誤		225
2	English (en) Normalcy bias		166
3	Arabic (ar) انحياز للسواء		80
4	French (fr) Biais de normalité		70
5	Ukrainian (uk) Упередження нормального перебігу		59
6	Japanese (ja) 正常性バイアス		18
7	Greek (el) Τάση κανονικότητας		1
8	Spanish (es) Sesgo de normalidad		1
9	Hebrew (he) הטיית נורמליות		1
10	Swedish (sv) Normalitetsbias		1

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic انحياز للسواء
el	Greek Τάση κανονικότητας
en	English Normalcy bias
es	Spanish Sesgo de normalidad
fr	French Biais de normalité
he	Hebrew הטיית נורמליות
ja	Japanese 正常性バイアス
sv	Swedish Normalitetsbias
uk	Ukrainian Упередження нормального перебігу
zh	Chinese 正常化偏誤

Best Rank

English: #34959 03.2020

Global: #26655 03.2020

Best Rank

English: #35945 12.2017

Global: #68182 03.2020

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