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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @09:06AM (1 child)
Poor people tend to appreciate the presence of sidewalks and bike paths.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:45AM
Ah, the point is, they already exist...
The situation here is complex, but in essence we're talking about transport links between town A and town B which have existed in one form or another for a couple of hundred years..there are a number of existing routes outwith the main road.
Now, up until quite recently, the people in town A have had no real need to travel to town B on a regular basis, town A is the primary population centre and the 'seat' of local governance, the town centres are three miles apart. Creeping conurbation over a couple of centuries has meant that if you're not local, you'd not really notice where one town starts and the other finishes, but there are differences.
Thanks to a series of inept , corrupt and frankly bizzare (at least, on the surface..) decisions by the council, the retail infrastructure in town A is, in effect, being run down, whereas in town B, the council is promoting a shiny new shopping complex..part of the reason behind this cycle/walk consultation...remember, three miles town centre to town centre...sure, a six miles round trip, an easy distance to carry a weeks shopping on foot or on a bike, because, other than visiting family or friends, that would be the *only* reason anyone would want to travel from town A to town B, for it is not a pretty place...
Of course, the fact that the council's pension fund financed the construction of said shiny shopping complex has fuck all to do with anything...
Poor people tend to appreciate decent cheap public transport more, I should mention the local bus company is owned by bona fide crooks turned 'legitimate businessmen', it costs me the eqivalent of nearly $5 for a return ticket for a round trip journey of just over 2 miles..our roads and cycle tracks tend to be infested with Mamils [wikipedia.org] and the MTB equivalents of Mamils all on their $500+ bikes, not quite poor people, though the little thugs on their BMX/MTBs might fall into that category.
(Thanks to a case of 'shit happens' I'm currently surviving on the equivalent of $430 per month, so regard myself as financially relatively poor)
Years back, a lot of people cycled locally, these days, not so much, and you rarely see a 'normal' human on a bike.