Bias Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except…

— Mary Douglas

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

“The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Hindsight bias and focusing only on the operator's role in accidents prevents us from fully learning from accidents and making significant progress in improving…

— Nancy G. Leveson

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

— Daniel Kahneman

“Dissonance theory also exploded the self-flattering idea that we humans, being Homo sapiens, process information logically. On the contrary: If the new information is…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

“One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you’ve only identified one good…

— Chip Heath

“Because it’s very easy to fall victim to confirmation bias, try focusing only on data that invalidates your hypothesis before looking for data that…

— Product School

“[W]e have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore,…

— Wadsworth Publishing

“The modern media, with so many options tailored to particular views, is a huge exercise in confirmation bias. This means that Americans are not…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The scientific method is designed to help investigators overcome the most entrenched human cognitive habit: the confirmation bias, the tendency to notice and remember…

— Carol Tavris