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understanding cognitive biases

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What this book knows

Our brains systematically distort perception, memory, and judgment in predictable ways we are largely blind to—but can learn to recognize.

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mind-and-cognition

Scopelliti and colleagues concluded that humans' characteristic lack of understanding of their own biases changes the way we think—a biasing bias, metabias.
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Confirmation bias feeds our pattern-seeking brains; you wouldn't make daily decisions without it, but recognizing when it occurs is the first battle.
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Recent events seared into our minds shape how we perceive danger—nearly half of Americans refused to fly after 9/11 despite flying being statistically safest.
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self-and-identity

People tend to assume they see the world objectively and that anyone who disagrees must be wrong, irrational, or biased—naïve realism.
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Regardless of feedback or incentives to improve, low-task-ability individuals continued to overestimate their own knowledge and abilities.
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Encourage learning at all ages but especially in young children; in collectivistic cultures where the group matters more, the Dunning-Kruger effect disappears.
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