PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Cognitive Bias, Abstract Theory, Missing Data
14 Nov 2016
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Research is based on premise that cognitive limitations cause people to employ various simplifying strategies and rules of thumb to ease the burden of mentally processing info to make judgements and decisions. These rules are normally helpful but also lead to faulty judgements known as cognitive biases. They are mental errors cause by the simplification of info. There are other biases other than cognitive biases: such as cultural bias, organization bias or bias that results from o(cid:374)e"s o(cid:449)(cid:374) self i(cid:374)te(cid:396)est. Cognitive bias does not result from any emotional or intellectual predisposition toward a certain judgement but rather from subconscious mental procedures for processing info. Cognitive biases are consistent and predictable: example: the more sharply an object is seen, the closer it appears to be. This rule can lead to systematic errors. Cognitive are similar to optical illusions because the error remains compelling even when the person is fully aware of it.
