What's a Bias? - LessWrong
The availability heuristic is a cognitive shortcut humans use to reach conclusions; and where this shortcut reliably causes inaccurate conclusions, we can say that an availability bias is at work. Sc…
x What's a Bias? — LessWrong Predictably Wrong Heuristics & Biases Rationality Frontpage 243 What's a Bias? by Eliezer Yudkowsky 27th Nov 2006 2 min read 18 243 The availability heuristic is a cognitive shortcut humans use to reach conclusions; and where this shortcut reliably causes inaccurate conclusions, we can say that an availability bias is at work. Scope insensitivity is another example of a cognitive bias . “Cognitive biases” are those obstacles to truth which are produced, not by the cost of information, nor by limited computing power, but by the shape of our own mental machinery . Fo
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