About Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk…

— Niall Ferguson

“people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.”

— Lee Ross

“people rely on a limited number of heuristic principles which reduce the complex tasks of assessing probabilities and predicting values to simpler judgmental operations.…

— Daniel Kahneman

“Systematic errors are known as biases,”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Human error is not random. It results from basic human mental abilities and physical skills combined with the features of the tools being used,…

— Nancy G. Leveson

“When heuristics don’t yield the results we expect, you’d think we would eventually realize that something’s wrong. Even if we don’t locate the biases,…

— Sheena Iyengar

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

— Daniel Kahneman

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for…

— Steven Pinker

I don't believe that any human mind is capable of 100 percent error... Nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time.

— Ken Wilber

“human errors in the collection and interpretation of data must be corrected by human analysis,”

— Scott Hartley

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

— Joshua Waitzkin