Cognitive bias: anchoring bias
This time around in our series on cognitive biases, we’re going to take a look at anchoring bias. Anchoring bias occurs when we place too…
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Cognitive bias: confirmation bias
This time around in our series on cognitive biases, we’re going to take a look at confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search…
Dunning-Kruger Effect
To understand what the Dunning-Kruger effect is, we have the topic of infectious diseases to provide us with an example to work with. The topic…
Cognitive bias: survivorship bias
The latest in our series on cognitive biases covers the survivorship bias. This is an error that comes about from focusing on surviving examples (and…
Cognitive bias: ostrich effect
The second in our series of cognitive biases looks at the ostrich effect. Last time around we looked at the bandwagon effect. Have you ever…
Cognitive bias: bandwagon effect
It has been difficult to avoid the word “bias” in 2020. In the sphere of social justice, the word is associated with stereotyping, a particular…