Modern algorithms make it all to easy for people to get stuck in tightly defined echochambers!

The sunlight in the afternoon produces a burst of light that passes through the hexagonal gaps.

It's Friday the 13th! Are you scared? Are you superstitious? Has the 13th ACTUALLY been unlucky, for you?

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People have biases. It's normal. On the other hand, people like to be convinced by. But persuasion is a long way. You haven't time for that. Easier if you support the people's biases. It brings them faster

Analyzing Magic the Gathering Strategies compared to Splinterlands using the Availability Heuristic.

Very early in the pandemic I wrote to Predictit, urging them to open prediction markets related to COVID-19. They replied that they are "not authorized" to do so, which I took to mean their board

In the Avengers story, a murderous psychopath is convinced half the living creatures in the universe need to die for peace and balance to exist. The sense of inevitability permeates the character’s every

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Here's another delightful cognitive bias we have as humans:![m.jpg] Oh yeah, this works wonders to indoctrinate anyone given enough time and the right conditions. The more you hear about something the

If you have not read Part 1, make sure to check it out before going into Part 2! One form of standardized testing is personality testing. Personality testing can be used to identify specific characteristics

The success of any global organization is dependent upon the productivity and collaboration of its employees. Therefore, companies pour significant time and expense into finding the right talent for the

There's no such thing as an unbiased person. As I explained in an earlier post ("Matter of Opinion"), biases come from different life philosophies, experiences, background and influences. Most

Do you love to say "I told you so!"? Do you like to make predictions and forget when you were wrong but boast about the ones you were right about? Do you have beliefs about what politician or

Sorry for the title but I just read “It uses a DAG so it is Quantum secure.”. A dag may or may not be quantum secure, I can not see how one could possibly imply one from the other. The coin in question

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that affects the  decisions and judgments that people make. Some of these biases are  related to memory. The way you remember an event

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People generally put more value to things which they really own or posses ,so if you have to value two exactly same things and one of them is owned by you then you will put more value to the same thing

This effect occurs when we change the wording of the sentence of the problem and people start observing it differently. May be loss becomes cost and more risk becomes neutral etc. For example if you tell