Intellectual
Cognitive biases
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Your brain takes shortcuts
Your brain has too much to handle.
So it takes shortcuts to think fast.
The shortcuts help most of the time.
Your guess
A bat and a ball cost $1.10 together. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much is the ball?
The shortcut fired in the wrong spot.
Brains make this same mistake again and again.
We call that repeated mistake a cognitive bias.
cognitive bias
A thinking pattern that pulls a judgment away from what is true.
These shortcuts show up everywhere.
“You skim a news headline and feel sure you know the whole story.”
“A kind friend snaps at you once, and you decide they are mean.”
Some people say, "I just trust my gut."Tap to reveal
A gut feeling is often a shortcut firing. It feels like deep wisdom, so the mistake hides. The bias wears the mask of common sense.