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The Most Common Cognitive Biases

  • Representativeness Heuristic: assumes that if something reminds us of something we know already, it is part of the same group.
  • Availability Heuristic: The more something comes in front of us, the more likely we think it is.
  • Anchoring Heuristic: Unconsciously giving a disproportionate amount of importance to the first piece of information that is learned.

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Cognitive Bias: The Other End Of Heuristics

When our heuristics make us do unreasonable things and ignore obvious dangers, it is termed as a cognitive bias, a systematic error that is based out of our unawareness.

These systematic thinking patterns form the mental models that make us perform automated functions, and...

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Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts

Heuristics: Mental Shortcuts

In our daily lives, we do not have the time, knowledge or skills to make the perfect decision/choice every time, and it may be too exhausting and time-consuming to make really big decisions in a perfect way all the time. This makes us use mental shortcuts, or heuristics ...

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Common cognitive biases

  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect: You believe that you're smarter or more skilled than you are, which prevents you from admitting your limitations and weaknesses.
  • Confirmation Bias: When you welcome information that you agree with while disregarding evide...

The most common biases

  • You’re focused on the time and energy you’ve already invested, or the sunk cost fallacy.
  • Your eyes are trained on positive cues -being overly optimistic and loss averse. Always trying harder and for longer.
  • When we realize we’re likely to fail at a job or other ...

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