#cognitive-bias
Explore Books, Authors and Common Highlights on Cognitive-bias
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Understanding cognitive biases is crucial for better decision-making.
From Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Expertise is not a guarantee of accuracy.
People tend to be overconfident in their judgments.
Humans are not as rational as they think they are.
From Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Anchoring effects are strong and persistent.
We often rely on mental shortcuts, which can lead us astray.
From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
Expertise does not always guarantee accuracy.
From Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
We often think we are more rational than we actually are.
From The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Anchoring effects are pervasive and powerful.
The more we analyze, the more we realize our uncertainty.
From Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
We tend to overvalue what we have and undervalue what we don’t.
From Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
We need to recognize the limits of our intuition.
From Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
Cognitive biases are the mind's way of shortcutting reasoning, often leading to errors.
Understanding cognitive biases is crucial for improving the quality of analysis.
From The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
The law of small numbers is a form of overconfidence.