“…Herbert Simon proposed the metaphor that effective behaviors are generated when context (environmental structures) and cognition (human computational capabilities) fit together like the blades of a pair of scissors—one blade being environmental structures and the other being human cognitive capacity (i.e., “Simon's scissors” metaphor) (Simon, ; see also Kozyreva & Hertwig, ; Lockton, ; Todd & Brighton, ). In fact, many previous works have demonstrated that, using binary choice tasks, the effectiveness of people's subjective memory experiences as inference cues is clearly explained in terms of the real‐world environmental structures (e.g., Goldstein & Gigerenzer, ; Hertwig, Herzog, Schooler & Reimer, ; Herzog & Hertwig, ; Honda, Abe, Matsuka & Yamagishi, ; Honda, Matsuka & Ueda, ; Schooler & Hertwig, ; Xu, González‐Vallejo, Weinhardt, Chimeli & Karadogan, ; as a review, see Gigerenzer & Goldstein, ) . For example, consider a binary choice question: “Which city has a larger population, Tokyo or Chiba?” People can make inferences based on their specific knowledge such as whether there are famous soccer teams in the cities.…”