Cognitive Bias

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Straight Line Instinct hinders thinking by assuming trends will continue 26
Fear Instinct hinders thinking by confusing risk with fear 25
Generalization Instinct hinders thinking by using misleading categories 25
Single Perspective Instinct hinders thinking by having only a hammer 25
Blame Instinct hinders thinking by pointing fingers 24
Negativity Instinct hinders thinking by emphasizing bad news 24
Destiny Instinct hinders thinking by forgetting that small changes add up 22
Gap Instinct hinders thinking by ignoring the middle majority 22
Size Instinct hinders thinking by considering a number without context 21
Urgency Instinct hinders thinking by exaggerating a decision's urgency 20
Status quo bias favors the current state 18
Dichotomous thinking simplistically resolves ambiguity 15
Availability Heuristic overestimates likelihood of events 14
Confirmation Bias defends one's assumptions 12
Ambiguity aversion favors the known over the unknown 10
Sunk Cost Fallacy avoids facing a loss 10
Overcome loss aversion with hands-on experience 9
Positive Test Strategy reinforces Confirmation Bias 9
Hanlon's razor avoids paranoia and ideology 7
Reference-class forecasting avoids uniqueness bias 7
Selection Bias happens when the sample is not representative 7
Anchoring Bias pulls an unknown value toward a known anchor 6
Familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth 6
Bias for action can mask a bias against thinking 5
Complexifying overcomes binary bias 5
Substitution answers an easier, similar question instead 5
Survivorship bias focuses only on successful examples 5
Bandwagon bias is social proof 4
Halo effect is the tendency to like (or dislike) everything about a person 2