Cognitive Biases
Commenters discuss various cognitive biases like confirmation bias, bias blind spot, hindsight bias, and availability heuristic, often highlighting how people fail to recognize their own biases in perceptions or judgments.
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It's cognitive biases all the way down. :)
Sounds like the bias blind spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot
Sounds like confirmation bias, also one of life's mysteries.
Its based on faulty logic. The human mind has a bias against its own biases
You're hitting a confirmation bias.
Maybe hindsight bias? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
How we're using confirmation bias to credit one out of 8 billion people with special skills.
That seems like a cognitive bias.
No, he's stating that they have a cognitive bias. One that is not easily realized.
They had "confirmation bias" affecting their perception