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Well knowing they exist (and affect intelligent, thoughtful people, too) is surely half the battle. I guess Charlie Munger wrote about the kind of thing you're
by Luc 8y ago
Well knowing they exist (and affect intelligent, thoughtful people, too) is surely half the battle.
I guess Charlie Munger wrote about the kind of thing you're looking for in 'Psychology of Human Misjudgement'.
But then I heard him interviewed on Chinese TV recently, and he seemed to be displaying some huge misunderstandings on human genetics and intelligence, and making what I consider basic reasoning errors. Perhaps he didn't feel like applying his knowledge of cognitive biases to this area.
- taeric 8y agoI think the glib answer is that that is science. It is the best we have at making sure we don't stay stuck on biases. It is just frustrating, because it would be nice for the answer to be immune from the thing it protects us from. That is, I would much prefer if science was immune to bias. Evidence is quite clear that nothing is free of bias, though.