Monday 17 May 2010

Why People Are Wrong

A Visual Study Guide to Cognitive Biases
Cognitive biases are psychological tendencies that cause the human brain to draw incorrect conclusions.

I shall be printing this out and commiting it all to memory just to be even more aggravating when you are arguing with me...

Ah, Dunning-Kruger where would my superiority be without you?

Via Boing Boing

Update: Edited to correct a spelling mistake. Obviously I think my spelling is much better than it is and didn't bother to proof-read my article.

3 comments:

Joe said...

Would it be incorrect to say that conitive should be cognitive?

Joe said...

Now you've made my comment go from pedantic to bizarre!

Mickielove said...

'conitive' - that should be a new word we could introduce whenever a rabbit related item appears - maybe as scarce as a goat related one but hey you have to start somewhere.