James Gill writes, "Cognitive Bias Parade is a site that takes a daily look at deviations in judgement and reconstructed realities. It is an illustrated review of the many ways the brain has evolved to lie to itself. It is not simply meant to scold. The spirit of the project was captured once in a quote by the magician Jerry Andrus: 'I can fool you because you're a human. You have a wonderful human mind that works no different from my human mind. Usually when we're fooled, the mind hasn't made a mistake. It's come to the wrong conclusion for the right reason.'
"I've given a Creative Commons Share-Alike status to my work on the site. I ask only that a link-back be given for my website as credit."
(Above: Observation selection bias… The effect of suddenly noticing things that were not noticed previously – and as a result wrongly assuming that the frequency has increased.)
( Illusion of Control… is the tendency for people to overestimate their ability to control events, for instance to feel that they control outcomes that they demonstrably have no influence over.)
( Functional Fixedness… limits a person to using an object only in the way it is traditionally used.)
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Choice Supportive Bias… The tendency to remember one's choices as better than they actually were.
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Planning Fallacy… is the tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task.
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Hindsight Bias… also known as the I knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination to see events that have already occurred as being more predictable than they were before they took place.
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Cognitive Bias Parade – a daily review of misjudgments and reconstructed realities
(Thanks, James!)
