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Human brains do statistics at a low level. This is what the experiment tested. An example experiment would be if you gave someone a rewards with different prob
by Houshalter 11y ago
Human brains do statistics at a low level. This is what the experiment tested.
An example experiment would be if you gave someone a rewards with different probabilities after some random event like clicking, and the brain would learn to estimate the probability that a sequence of clicks would lead to a reward.
On a high level this obviously breaks down. The brain doesn't have thousands of examples of slaughtering cows leading to starvation. Cognitive biases all operate at a high level of reasoning, and involve verbal arguments and stuff. But on a low level, the brain is absolutely statistically based.
- webaba 11y agoThis is actually completely incorrect. Many cognitive biases occur at low levels of cognition without involving language, take professional pilots and confirmation biases despite of a ton of training data.
- Houshalter 11y agoI think professional pilots are still making mistakes at a higher level. By "low level" I mean things your brain does in a split second without thinking about.