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Learning the proper names for these concepts has been a huge benefit of reading HN. I've been collecting them for the past few years and now have enough for a
by arthurjj 9y ago
Learning the proper names for these concepts has been a huge benefit of reading HN.
I've been collecting them for the past few years and now have enough for a bingo card.
- Swquenzer 9y agoAbsolutely agree. Does anyone have a compiled list of these types of concepts?
- arthurjj 9y agoMy list in reverse chronological order: baumol's cost disease, Chesterton's fence, Berkson's paradox, goodhart's law/Campbell's law, Gell-Mann Amnesia affect, Ship of Theseus, The Zeigarnik effect, Conway's law, selection bias heffindal index, Betteridge's law of head lines, survivorship bias, bayes theorem black swan, Dunbar number, Anscombe's quartet, false positive/false negative, fundamental attribution bias, type 1 type 2 thinking, grok, simpson's paradox, Hawthorne effect, dunning kruger, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, flynn effect, Moving the overton window,
- nikanj 9y agoSturgeon’s law
- glitcher 9y agocobra effect, bikeshedding
- thanatropism 9y agoSince you're keeping a list: it's "Herfindahl".
- arthurjj 9y agoThat's what I get for just copy pasting a personal note. Thanks for the fix.
- positr0n 9y agoMost of the concepts HN members love to use to sound well educated while arguing on the internet are in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases