I encountered Cognitive bias cheat sheet – Because thinking is hard by Buster Benson today along with the visualization contributed by John Manoogian III.
Benson divided Wikipedia’s list of cognitive biases into twenty groupings and summarizes those into four principles to use and four truths about our solutions.
That’s handy but how do I practice spotting those cognitive biases?
I started with Problem 1: Too much information., the first group:
We notice things that are already primed in memory or repeated often. (emphasis in original)
- Attentional bias
- Availability heuristic
- Base rate fallacy
- Context effect, Cue-dependent forgetting, Mood-congruent memory bias
- Empathy gap
- Frequency illusion, Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
- Illusory truth effect
- Mere exposure effect
- Omission bias
(You notice I have revealed one of my cognitive “biases.” I can’t stand to have lists in non-alphabetical order.)
Users are invited to write a one-sentence definition for each bias and then to supply examples of each one.
Scoring: 1 point for each example of a bias, 3 points if it’s in your own work.
Spotting the biases, as you see them is one aspect of the exercise.
Group discussion of results will hone your cognitive bias spotting skills to a fine edge.
My first cut on problem 1, group 1.
Suggestions? Comments?