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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: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday February 15 2020, @11:07PM (9 children)
I'll admit to this one - (1) crappy font and colour selections that make articles like this one unreadable to me aren't worth the time bias. At least not my time.
Same as (2) articles that stretch out over 10 separate pages aren't worth my time bias. And (3) articles with mostly ads aren't worth the effort bias.
(4) I like dogs. Some people like ferrets, or iguanas, or snakes. I prefer dogs. And ice cream, lasagna, and chocolate. YMMV. That's okay.
Another personal bias is against (5) articles where the title contradicts the article body bias.
(6) Anything from Goop is shit is another bias.
(7) is one that took a while to develop, but with the EFF sending Microsoft a blank hard drive and saying they want windows 7 source code copied to it and returned to them [fsf.org] they've given me even more reason to believe they're just a bunch of self-serving publicity hounds trying to justify their salaries with cheap stunts that they know won't change anything.
(8) Anything to do with the PinePhone and the hype over a "phone" with no sound that can't make phone calls. You can buy a Linux tablet for less than half the price and sound works.
(9) Stupidity from religious folk, especially sinceresearch continues to show that religious people are dumber [sagepub.com] - hence evangelicals support for Trump.
(10) People who continue to claim without proof that there's no such thing as gender bias and expect me to bother doing all the legwork to prove otherwise when we all know TMB won't accept it no matter what but can't be arsed to find a single study that proves there no such thing.
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 15 2020, @11:49PM (5 children)
1. Half of EF's comments are right half of the time.
2. 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
3. Take one down and pass it around.
4. 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
5. GOTO 2.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by sgleysti on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:36AM (4 children)
I think you're missing a decrement operation. Since I'm not too familiar with basic, here it is in PIC assembler:
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:23PM (2 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by sgleysti on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:45PM (1 child)
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
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @04:17PM
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.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:00AM (1 child)
(11) Barbara Hudson's tranny hormone imbalance puts him into a tard rage daily.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @03:08AM
(12) Barbara Hudson's daily tard rage confirmed independently.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2020, @10:06AM
Thank you for the Religoten study link https://sci-hub.ren/https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0146167219879122 [sci-hub.ren]