The Big 3
Thinking pitfall, or hiccup, that are a part of every human's thought process
What is a cognitive bias
The act of giving up a number, as in salary or car price, and every number thereafter is revolves around this
What is anchoring
Gladwell's 2005 book about trusting your intuition
What is Blink
Our tendency to underestimate how good we are on tasks; or our inability to see how bad we really are
What is the Dunning Kruger Effect
Cut me off in traffic?!? oh, you'll get yours sooner or later...
What is the Just World Fallacy
tendency to search for, recall, or favor your prior opinion, belief, or value
What is Confirmation Bias
You keep reading news about shark attacks in Florida, but the aggregate numbers have not gone up
What is the Selection Effect
Kahneman's Book refuting Gladewell's Book, suggesting Logic is better than Intution
What is Thinking Fast and Slow
after you learn something, you believe you should have predicted the outscore, given al the clues
What is the Hindsight Bias
Your memories are not a filing cabinet, but rather a network of memories that gets activated
What is the Mis-information Effect
Information is arranged in a way that "nudges" you in one direction or another
What is Framing, or Priming
The notion that an event is scary and fear makes it real, though the statistical probability is infinitely low
What is Vividness Criterion
(or the Law of Small Numbers)
Your emotions are innate, self-validating, and immune to challenge
What is the Affective Fallacy
Perceive meaningful connections between random, meaningless things
What is apophenia
Every is looking at you, noticing what you are wearing, saying, and doing
What is the Spotlight Effect
Immediate, recent, and vivid examples of a phenomenon that immediately come to mind
What is Availability Bias
people overestimate the chance of something happening, if it hasn't happened in a long time
What is the Gambler's fallacy
after observing behavior, assuming it's not the context or situation, but it's the Person, and 'fortune telling' motives
What is the Fundamental Attribution Error
You like Van Gogh's starry night because of the its statement about the vast ability of humans to reach their unlimited potential against a universe of hardships
What is the Introspection
Argument "Against the Man"
Ad Hominem Fallacy
Social Media's algorithms feeds you information which appeal to your sense of "I KNEW it!"
What is confirmation bias
In salary negotiation or car buying, it is NOT giving up the number before your opponent
What is first mover dis-advantage or second mover advantage
The person at work who has been there for a long time and has has expertise about what ideas are good/bad
Who is Yoda?
You argue against an position no one is taking, or set up a weak argument just to destroy it
What is the Straw Man Fallacy
"I'll start my exercise regime tomorrow" because there's Re Runs of Investigative Discovery / Forensic Files are on TV
What is procrastination (also, hyperbolic discounting)