cognitive bias
How much does cognitive bias change people’s perception? Well, the history of computing would be a lot different.
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When we don’t know the reasons behind our choices, we confabulate.
One day in 1995, a large, heavy middle-aged man robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight. He didn’t wear a mask or any sort of disguise. And he smiled at […]
80% of adults are overly optimistic about life—where does that cognitive bias come from?
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Natural selection has left us with a world of optimists—is this healthy?
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A key cognitive bias isn’t a bug, it’s just operator error (and easily correctable by using reason as nature intended).
“My theory is true, if I do say so myself.” SPOT stands for “Spontaneous Preference For Own Theories,” and it’s a newly identified cognitive bias.