Biases Pt. 1
When a person allows their bad mood to dictate their decision making.
What is pessimism (mood) bias?
When someone allows their good mood to dictate their decision making.
What is optimism (mood) bias?
What are logical fallacies?
A distraction, or attempt to redirect a conversation away from its original topic.
What is red herring?
When a false two-option scenario is created in a situation with a wide variety of potential outcomes or choices.
What is false dichotomy (dilemma, either/or fallacy)?
A bias based in a lack of confidence of a certain topic. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Looking only at the evidence that supports your arguments and ignoring any evidence that refutes it.
What is confirmation bias?
This uses one event to predict a chain of events, often the ones that are the worst-case scenario.
What is slippery slope?
This misrepresents a cause-and-effect relationship between one event and another.
What is causal fallacy?
When someone attacks an opponent personally in order to direct attention away from the subject at hand.
What is ad hominem?
If the result is good, we will celebrate and take credit. If the result is bad, we are more likely to blame someone or something else.
What is self-serving bias?
The first thing you judge influences your judgment of everything that follows.
When someone distorts, exaggerates, or totally misrepresents an opposing argument in order to make it easier to oppose or disprove.
What is straw man?
Uses someone's credentials to back up a claim they aren't qualified to make, or uses their credentials as evidence, without presenting facts or information.
What is appeal to authority?
The belief that because everyone agrees with something, you should too.
What is bandwagon fallacy (Ad Populum)?
How much you like someone, or how attractive they are, influences your other judgments about them.
When someone lets the social dynamics of a group situation override logical thinking and best outcomes.
What is groupthink?
When someone tries to prove their point by using the same point as evidence.
What is circular argument (reasoning)?
When someone uses the fact that you don't have the information yet to prove them wrong as an argument that they are right.
What is appeal to ignorance?
Making use of an unfortunate situation to extract an emotional response that detracts from the original argument.
What is appeal to pity?
Making an emotional decision rather than just considering your emotions along with the facts.
What is emotional bias?
When someone would rather do the opposite of what someone is trying to make them do.
What is reactance?
When a key term or phrase in an argument is used in an ambiguous way, with one meaning in one portion of the argument and then another meaning in another portion.
What is equivocation?
When someone accuses another of doing something that the accuser is guilty of in order to direct the attention away from their own actions.
What is appeal to hypocrisy?
Conclusion is based on an argument that the origins of a person, idea, institute, or theory determine its character, nature, or worth.
What is genetic fallacy?