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> Why is it that people who have a greater capacity to overcome bias have a greater vulnerability to bias? Overconfidence. If you've become accustomed to think
by meepmorp 14y ago
> Why is it that people who have a greater capacity to overcome bias have a greater vulnerability to bias?
Overconfidence. If you've become accustomed to thinking of yourself as being better able to avoid cognitive bias, you come to be confident in your abilities, to the point where you (perhaps unconsciously) think of yourself as not susceptible to biases.
- quanticle 14y agoThat's certainly one possible explanation. Another possible explanation is that their brains are just faster in general, so that even though their type 2 systems are faster than others', their type 1 systems are faster yet and manage to override even more consistently than in others. In any case, I don't think it's something that's "obvious" or "expected" by any means, and I do think that it should bear further investigation.