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from the Gurdjieff-taught-it-is-not-so-easy-to-remember-yourself dept.
A weekly financial newsletter included this link, https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/lifestyle/50-cognitive-biases-to-be-aware-of-so-you-can-be-the-very-best-version-of-you/. A cute graphical "flash card" version of the same list is available at https://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-cognitive-biases-in-the-modern-world/ Each "card" includes a short example that I found helpful in understanding the definitions.
Along with the ever-popular Dunning-Kruger Effect, the list had some eye openers for me. Here are the first ten. As a mental exercise, think about how many more you are aware of...before going to either of the links for a peek:
1. Fundamental Attribution Error: We judge others on their personality or fundamental character, but we judge ourselves on the situation.
2. Self-Serving Bias: Our failures are situational, but our successes are our responsibility.
3. In-Group Favoritism: We favor people who are in our in-group as opposed to an out-group.
4. Bandwagon Effect: Ideas, fads, and beliefs grow as more people adopt them.
5. Groupthink: Due to a desire for conformity and harmony in the group, we make irrational decisions, often to minimize conflict.
6. Halo Effect: If you see a person as having a positive trait, that positive impression will spill over into their other traits. (This also works for negative traits.)
7. Moral Luck: Better moral standing happens due to a positive outcome; worse moral standing happens due to a negative outcome.
8. False Consensus: We believe more people agree with us than is actually the case.
9. Curse of Knowledge: Once we know something, we assume everyone else knows it, too.
10. Spotlight Effect: We overestimate how much people are paying attention to our behavior and appearance.
At some level, I suppose this is click-bait--but this bait got me thinking.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by nishi.b on Sunday February 16 2020, @12:45AM (1 child)
A few weeks ago I was looking at a nice circle of biases, with even more elements, but without the examples.
It is available from wikimedia [wikimedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @01:51AM
that's great, grouped into 'not enough meaning', 'too much information', 'need to act fast', 'what should we remember' is also informative; these categories underly most of the challenges of practical software engineering and development, and to a lesser degree the process of hardware engineering (both electronic and mech).