Cognitive Biases Explained | How to Think More Logically
We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life.
2016-12-30 19:00:00 - Documentary Base
Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more successful life.
These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information better.
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Anchoring Bias: 1st information disproportionately influence later jugements. Related to contrast effect
01:22 - Availability Bias: Focusing on what you know / what is shown. Lack of perspective
02:22 - Bandwagon Effect: Aka group thinking. Doing like the others, social pressure
03:09 - Choice Supportive Bias: A choice unknowingly becomes cue of superiority and feed filtering effects. Fanboys, religion, partisanism
03:50 - Confirmation Bias: Only searching for proofs aligned with point of view. Misinterpret contradictory evidences to support current world view
04:30 - Ostrich Bias: Ignore or rationalize negative information
05:20 - Outcome Bias: Base the effectiveness of a decision on its outcome, neglecting other factors. Basis for superstition.
06:12 - Overconfidence: Stop making decision based on facts after a series of successes06:52 | Placebo Effect: The belief of an outcome improves its likeness.
07:44 - Survivorship Bias (Only taking into account the positive outcomes, which gives irrelevant correlations
08:32 - Selective Perception: Ostrich + Confirmation combined?09:08 | Blindspot Bias: Thinking that we are less biased than the next folk