The fact that these cognitive biases exist does not preclude the possibility that people's actions also influence what occurs in their lives. The question is r

The fact that these cognitive biases exist does not preclude the possibility that people's actions also influence what occurs in their lives. The question is really how much of your circumstances are due to randomness, versus your behaviors. And regardless of how much of it is due to chance, I'm not surprised that these cognitive biases exist, because basically only the parts of our lives that we control are relevant to our cognitive processes. That is to say, if you want to avoid getting raped, the parts that are not under our control are irrelevant to our minds, for the very fact we can't control them. It makes sense to be hypersensitive to any factors that might be under our control.