Overcoming Bias
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A forum for those serious about trying to overcome their own biases in beliefs and actions. More » (Source: Technorati)
Overview
Media:
Blog
Audience:
(English)
Editorial
Edited By:
Leo Romero
Last Edit:
Mar 9, 2008 - 8:40 AM PDT
Story Stats
Top Topics:
Health (9), Psychology (9), Sci/Tech (9), Politics (3), Business (2), Extra (2), U.S. (1), Finance (1), Health Care (1), Media (1), Mainstream Media (1)
Top Authors:
Robin Hanson (4), Eliezer Yudkowsky (2), Zubin Jelveh (1), Tyler Cowen (1), Hal Finney (1)
Top Formats:
Opinion (7), Review (2)
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Conformity Questions
() Robin posted earlier about a NYT Magazine article on conformity. I was able to find an online copy of the scientific paper here: http://psr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/10/1/2. ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Against News
() But we must deplore and, so far as possible, overcome the evils of habitual newspaper reading. These evils are, chiefly, three: first, the waste of much time and mental energy ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Impotence of Belief in Bias
() A new study from Leibniz University Hannover finds that the 1/3 of German professional fund managers who believe human biases to be important in financial markets have better ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Scarcity
() What follows is taken primarily from Robert Cialdini's Influence: The Psychology of Social Persuasion. I own three copies of this book, one for myself, and two for loaning to ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Showing That You Care
() Human behavior regarding medicine seems strange; assumptions and models that seem workable in other areas seem less so in medicine. Perhaps, we need to rethink the basics. ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Biases in Processing Political Information
() I would be with a bunch of Kennedy fans watching the debate and their comment would be, "He's really slaughtering Nixon." Then we would all go to another apartment, and the ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Morality Is Overrated
() Hanging out with moral philosophers last week at Oxford reminded me of the old complaint that economists neglect morality. Actually, I think the real problem is the reverse! ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Righting a Wrong Question
() When you are faced with an unanswerable question - a question to which it seems impossible to even imagine an answer - there is a simple trick which can turn the question ...Posted by Leo Romero -
Reject Random Beliefs
() A recent New Scientist mentions a 2005 American Political Science Review paper on the genetic basis of political beliefs, which includes this key table, breaking variation in ...Posted by Leo Romero
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