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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 15 2020, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by sgleysti on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:36AM (4 children)

    by sgleysti (56) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:36AM (#958677)

    I think you're missing a decrement operation. Since I'm not too familiar with basic, here it is in PIC assembler:

    common udata_shr
    num_bottles_wall res 1

    reset_vec code H'0'
        goto start

    program code
    start
        movlw .99
        movwf num_bottles_wall
    loop
        decfsz num_bottles_wall
        goto loop

        goto $
        end

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    Extra 'Interesting' Modifier   0  
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    Total Score:   3  
  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:23PM (2 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:23PM (#958789) Journal
    Should be GOTO 3 if you are looking for a decrement.
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    • (Score: 2) by sgleysti on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:45PM (1 child)

      by sgleysti (56) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:45PM (#958797)

      Aha, right, my mistake. Additionally make the number of bottles a variable and that clinches it, I think.

      • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:47PM

        by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:47PM (#958811) Journal
        Well, you could just start at INFINITY bottles. Infinity - 1 is still INFINITY, Hastings a smaller infinite number. Infinity bottles might even be enough to keep EF supplies for a while. :-)
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @04:17PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @04:17PM (#958819)

    I was using BASIC but couldn't remember the correct operation. I think you could set $X as 99 then have $X=$X-1 or something.