15 notes tagged with "cbias-math-simplification"

Appeal to probability fallacy

Belief that if it's possible, then it's probable.

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Published on 8 months ago

Base rate fallacy

We tend to overvalue the specific information - rather than integrating it with general information like the base rate.

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Published on 8 months ago

Conservatism

People don't easily change existing belief even when presented with new evidence.

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Denomination effect

Less likely to spend a large denomination currency than the equal value in smaller notes.

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Published on 8 months ago

Hofstadter’s law

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. It describes the widely experienced difficulty of…

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Hofstadter’s law

It describes the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity.

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Published on 8 months ago

Magic number 7+-2

Number of items that can be held in short term memory: 7 +/- 2

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Mental accounting

People tend to assign subjective value to money - this is susceptible to biases, thinking flaws.

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Published on 8 months ago

Money illusion

People mistake the face value of money(the amount of money) with the real value(what it can buy).

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Published on 8 months ago

Normalcy bias

The brain sometimes ignores multiple warnings signals.

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Published on 8 months ago

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