Cognitive Biases

Automation bias is the tendency to over-trust a machine's output and under-check it. Here is the precise defin...

Intelligence does not protect a decision from being wrong — it makes the defence of it more convincing. The me...

Considering the opposite, steelmanning, the assigned devil's advocate, and the premortem all claim to counter...

Follower counts feel like success, but they're a classic vanity metric. Using a few mental models — vanity vs...

What cognitive biases are and why they exist, eight biases that do the most damage in real decisions — confirm...