CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Wishful Thinking, Confirmation Bias, Paraplegia
20 Feb 2016
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Why would we believe that: availability cascade, wishful thinking. People like to believe in the paranormal: people want to make money for you. What is true: people can lose whole hemispheres and still function relatively normally. The brain has redundancy: if we removed 70% of your neurones randomly, we"re not sure how badly off you"d be. Esp: no it is not, unfortunately, there are several cognition biases that make us believe that its real. Iq tests are biased: if they were biased, they would under predict later success for certain groups, and over predict for others. This does not happen: huge panels of scientists with widely varying viewpoints concluded that they are not biased, item analysis is used to identify bad test questions. Money correlates with happiness until you"re making about k per year (in our society), then it levels off: life events don"t affect happiness much.
