Bias Quote by Daniel Kahneman Download Open image “Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.” — Daniel Kahneman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bias Hindsight Surprise
Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise. — Karl Schroeder Copy Share Image
Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events… — Hersh Shefrin Copy Share Image
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable. — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability.… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
“Unrealistic expectations often lead to disappointment, while simple unbiased attention and detachment to outcome often lead to pleasant surprises.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so… — Diane F. Halpern Copy Share Image
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“People who are poor think like traders, but the dynamics are quite different. Unlike traders, the poor are not indifferent to the differences between… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“For example, I recently came to doubt my long-held impression that adultery is more common among politicians than among physicians or lawyers.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long;… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Experts don't know exactly where the boundaries of their expertise are. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a… — John Galliano Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I can say this very clearly: I have come into this Congress with an antiwar bias. — Lois Frankel Copy Share Image
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.” — Lori Lifsey Copy Share Image
“I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
“Many journalists now are no more than channelers and echoers of what George Orwell called the 'official truth'. They simply cipher and transmit lies.… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
