I get horrified by the proliferation of names for biases. Students are
taught lots of sorts of bias but not taught what bias is.
If you understand that bias is error with a pattern, then you can look
for it yourself.
On 8 Iúil 2009, at 07:38, Jon Brassey wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I thought I'd share this fascinating list of cognitive biases found
> on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases.
>
> What struck me was two things:
>
> 1) The sheer volume of potential cognitive biases
>
> 2) We often focus on methodological biases, but irrespective of the
> purity of methodology, there is still a mountain to climb when it
> comes to overcoming cognitive bias.
>
> Best wishes
>
> jon
>
> PS I feel the need to play a game of cognitive bias bingo!
Ronan Conroy
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