20 notes tagged with "cognitive-bias"

Apophenia

Apophenia is the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas…

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Published on 3 years ago

Availability Heuristic

You overestimate the probability of something that you hear more often/remember easily. Eg. We think accidents kill more people than strokes…

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Published on 2 years ago

Cognitive Bias

Cognitive Bias is a known error in the thinking process. These are generally caused by brain using shortcuts to process large amount of…

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Published on 8 months ago

Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to... search for interpret favorably favor recall information ... data/evidence in a way that confirms or…

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Published on 2 years ago

Dunning–Kruger Effect

Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low competence in a field overestimate their competence. You need a certain…

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Published on 2 years ago

Fundamental Attribution Error

We attribute the reason of our own(or of our friends) failures to the environment, but the failures of others(or our enemies) to their…

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Published on 2 years ago

Halo effect

Tendency to transfer the good impression of a person/ company/ brand/ etc in one context to things they recommend in another context.

Tagged with: #cognitive-bias, #psychology, #perception

Published on 7 minutes ago

Hindsight Bias

People tend to think that events could have been easily predictable AFTER the outcome is clear. The certainty that people attribute to their…

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Published on 2 years ago

In-group bias

Favoring people of your in-group over people outside.

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Published on 7 minutes ago

Memory is Unreliable Storage

Duration Neglect: We remember specific memory from an event rather than the total duration. Peak End Rule: We overemphasise what happens at…

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Published on 2 years ago

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