RE: Let's talk about bias!!!
May 9, 2018 at 6:27 pm
(This post was last modified: May 9, 2018 at 6:29 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
The best book I've ever read on bias is Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
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Here's a big list of quotes from it:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/16...t-and-slow
Not only is bias not a myth... but the most rational people to have ever lived were highly biased and we're all much more irrational than we think we are. Knowing that we are irrational is the first step to becoming slightly less slow.
It's not the hardest thing in the world to avoid logical fallacies if you're a logical person. But to avoid cognitive biases? Even the most rational people can't avoid them completely. We just have to do the best we can to be non-biased.
If you want more Daniel Kahneman here's an interesting TED talk by him:
Here's a big list of quotes from it:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/16...t-and-slow
Not only is bias not a myth... but the most rational people to have ever lived were highly biased and we're all much more irrational than we think we are. Knowing that we are irrational is the first step to becoming slightly less slow.
It's not the hardest thing in the world to avoid logical fallacies if you're a logical person. But to avoid cognitive biases? Even the most rational people can't avoid them completely. We just have to do the best we can to be non-biased.
If you want more Daniel Kahneman here's an interesting TED talk by him:
