What exactly is cognitive biases in a simple term?
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Brains are lazy. They look to shortcut having to make decisions about every little thing individually, so use rules that are often true to avoid this. These shortcuts are cognitive biases.
Just because something fits with a cognitive bias doesn’t mean its wrong – the issue is when they’re overused or incorrectly applied.
A lot of different biases exist, but they mainly come down to your brain skipping over the thorough analysis to an easy answer.
An example –
This person has a cough. So did that guy yesterday and he had the flu. So this person has the flu (recency bias). Obviously they could, but you’re skipping a lot of options in favor of that just because its more easily called to mind because of seeing it recently
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