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Optimism Bias – The Cognitive Flaw That Keeps Most People Unprepared (And How Preppers Can Beat It)

There is a psychological reason why most people never prepare for disasters, and it is not laziness, ignorance, or a failure to read the news. It is a hardwired feature of the huma...

Optimism Bias | The Failure To Accurately Anticipate Risk

Optimism bias leads us to believe that we are less likely to suffer from misfortune and more likely to enjoy success than reality would suggest. In other words: it’s feeling ... Th...

Outcome Bias | Judging Betting Decisions On Results Alone

Outcome bias refers to the tendency to judge a decision based on its outcome rather than the quality of the decision at the time it was made. Some poor decisions ... The post Outco...

Why We Ignore Red Flags When We Want Something to Be True

We miss red flags because hope, attachment and bias quietly shape how we interpret evidence, not because we lack intelligence. The post Why We Ignore Red Flags When We Want Somethi...

EU412: Foundations: Recognizing Our Biases

For this week’s episode, we’re sharing the next Foundations episode of the Living Joyfully Podcast with Pam and Anna, Recognizing Our Biases. Let’s talk about cognitive biases. Com...

Detecting Bias in Generative AI

Generative AI inherits the biases of its training data, and most users don't notice.

New Study Uses Forest Fire Scenarios to Test a Classic Flaw in Human Reasoning

A new study shows people still misjudge probability even when questions are made clear and familiar. The post New Study Uses Forest Fire Scenarios to Test a Classic Fl...

Conservatism Bias In Betting | The Risk Of Being Too Cautious

Conservatism bias is the tendency to preserve the status quo, or existing conditions, rather than adopting new or innovative approaches. It is often associated with a reluctance to...

6 Cognitive Biases That Are Making You Poor and How To Overcome Them, According to Charlie Munger

Charlie Munger, the late legendary investor and longtime business partner of Warren Buffett, spent decades studying why intelligent people consistently make terrible financial deci...

10 Biases That You Need To Avoid In Sports Betting

One of the biggest risks for sports bettors is the presence of biases that can cloud their judgment and lead them to make poor decisions. These biases can come in ... The post 10 B...

Trading Biases vs. Predictions: What’s The Difference?

As a trader, you must develop biases instead of simply making many predictions. But how can you tell the two apart?

Recency Bias | How Sports Bettors Favour The Here & Now

Recency bias is when individuals value recent events over historical ones, believing they provide more insight into how things will play out in the future. This irrational tendency...

Tip of the Day 7/1

Your brain's default setting is negativity, but cognitive distortions like all-or-nothing thinking are just mental bad habits you can break. Simply naming these thought patterns st...

CALIBRATION NOTE (Bias Admission): Victimizationing

When someone self-professes as a victim, my suspicion alarms sometimes start too early, set to a cautionary low-drone.Continue reading on Medium »

5 Cognitive Biases That Are Keeping People Stuck in the Working Class, and How to Overcome Them

Most people assume the gap between the working class and the wealthy comes down to income alone. In reality, the way a person’s brain processes risk, reward, and scarcity often mat...

Employees Aren’t Questioning AI Advice Enough

A new study finds that people often actively avoid seeking additional information when it might complicate their decision or create moral discomfort.

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

Cognitive Debt and the Cost of Staying Wrong

Being wrong is unavoidable. The real damage comes from allowing a bad assumption to shape everything you build on top of it.

7 Risks of Relying on Assumptions Instead of Evidence

Assumptions are mental shortcuts. They help us move quickly, reduce uncertainty, and make decisions without waiting for perfect information. In fast-moving environments, that can f...

Half Full or Half Empty? Individual Differences in the Way We Interpret Uncertainty

Teaching: Use this lesson plan to teach students about valence bias and the initial negativity hypothesis.

We found the real reason 70% of transformations fail

It's not strategy. It's not funding. It's a cognitive bias called the false consensus effect.

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

Fine-tuning tests show "bias ... toward confidently representing the claims as true."

Charlie Munger: 3 Cognitive Biases That Are Making You Broke and Unsuccessful and How To Overcome Them

Charlie Munger, the late vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s longtime business partner, spent decades studying why intelligent people make terrible financial d...