Guide to cognitive biases
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Guide to cognitive biases
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#2Similar sites that are a good reference:
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#3Why are there so many of these cognitive biases? Can we infer they persist widely because they confer some benefit?
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#4Is there somewhere a guide for preventing and/or overcoming these cognitive biases?
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#5While i do not see the immediate use for me personally beyond being an interesting read, i must confess that this is a great domain name.
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#6Why are there so many of these cognitive biases? Can we infer they persist widely because they confer some benefit?
I think it's mostly because they are quite ad-hoc and superficial. It's often not even clear what is the normative behavior that the bias is deviation of, or whether that normative behavior is somehow better than the "biased" one. It's a weird scene.
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#7Apex Fallacy is not listed again:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Apex%20Falla...
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#8As Richard Feynman said: The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Most cognitive biases are effective ways of fooling your self.
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#9There is also a very poster-suited svg over at wikipedia that categorizes cognitive biases:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Cognitiv...
(There are also hyperlinks to the corresponding wikipedia pages)
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#10Why are there so many of these cognitive biases? Can we infer they persist widely because they confer some benefit?
I found Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow persuasive on this question. I don’t have a psych or neuro degree, but Crudely speaking and possibly butchering it: the mind reflects two types of thinking, which Kahneman terms System 1 (fast) and System 2 (slow). System 1 is closer to instinct and helps us respond quickly in, for example, fight or flight situations. System 2 requires significant mental effort to more thoroughly analyze things like complex math problems. It’s easier to coast on System 1 thinking. The book provides examples and much better and more in depth explanations. There was a replication controversy about some of it, but still very worth reading I think.