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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minikites Aug 20, 2012 View on HN

It's cognitive biases all the way down. :)

lkbm May 15, 2016 View on HN

Sounds like the bias blind spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blind_spot

edsheeran Mar 28, 2017 View on HN

Sounds like confirmation bias, also one of life's mysteries.

NOSHSHNACKERS May 9, 2016 View on HN

Its based on faulty logic. The human mind has a bias against its own biases

minimaxir Nov 14, 2016 View on HN

You're hitting a confirmation bias.

58x14 Dec 29, 2021 View on HN

Maybe hindsight bias? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

nprateem Nov 14, 2024 View on HN

How we're using confirmation bias to credit one out of 8 billion people with special skills.

eurasiantiger Apr 22, 2021 View on HN

That seems like a cognitive bias.

Something1234 Nov 23, 2016 View on HN

No, he's stating that they have a cognitive bias. One that is not easily realized.

easytiger Jun 11, 2022 View on HN

They had "confirmation bias" affecting their perception