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To summarize biases further, in one word: Incompetence. Lab results confirming cognitive biases come from testing small groups of students (up to 200). Among o
by anton_tarasenko 10y ago
To summarize biases further, in one word: Incompetence.
Lab results confirming cognitive biases come from testing small groups of students (up to 200). Among other things, it means: (1) respondents with similar background, so we can't generalize (2) respondents don't care about outcomes, (3) tests are synthetic. Plus publication bias and other standard issues.
These results are themselves a sort of confirmation bias.
Mistakes in real life happen when we don't know what we're doing. If a person can learn, he'll discover systematic mistakes. But that comes with domain experience, not cognitive science.
- adamweld 10y agoIt's not that simple. Some cognitive biases, especially related to shortcuts in decision making, are more prevalent in smarter people. Here's a good jumping off point: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-peopl... I highly recommend reading more of Daniel Kahneman's work if you find the above interesting.
- not_that_noob 10y agoGreat find! Doctors are famous for lousy financial decisions, which I think proves the point.
- rublev 10y agoI'm interested in the questionnaire they mention.
- igravious 10y agoLimitation :)
- igravious 10y agoTo respond to myself, Resource-constrained (Are we counting hyphens as one word or two?? :) )
- BurningFrog 10y ago> If a person can learn, he'll discover systematic mistakes. But that comes with domain experience, not cognitive science. Describing and categorizing systematic mistakes that people do is precisely what cognitive science does. The human mind is a domain of it's own.
- st3v3r 10y agoOf course someone would come into the comments and try to rationalize why this doesn't apply to him, and why he's a special snowflake who can do no wrong.