It is easy to both form and support your beliefs. It’s in the evaluation—and especially rejection—that effort is involved.
Tag: <span>bias</span>
Mental shortcuts are features, not flaws. Biases are rules being used out of context. How can we avoid the pitfalls and make more rational decisions?
Is it good to think you’re better than you are? By most accounts, confidence is a positive characteristic. It convinces people to trust you, motivates you towards big goals, and is for the most part…
There are two ways you can judge something as true or false: do the work and figure it out for yourself, or let your gut tell you. Putting in the effort to examine an argument…
To pass the Turing test, a computer program must convince a human judge that it is a human by answering a series of questions the judge presents. “A computer would deserve to be called intelligent…
Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.” In 2016, Microsoft gifted to the world a chat bot named Tay. She was designed to mimic the language…
Simplicity is now something we expect from design. Everything should be clear, obvious, intuitive—in other words, we should not have to think very hard. For the most part, this is a good thing. We don’t want…
Losing sucks, but not losing might suck even more. Consider this gamble: I flip a coin, if it’s heads, you win $100. If it’s tails, you lose $100. Would you take it? Most people would…
Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, is a good book. Thinking fast, or System 1 as he calls it, is your intuition. It’s quick, resourceful, and prone to mistakes which we often call biases.…