We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information better. Ismonoff: https://www.youtube.com/user/ismonofftv 1)Anchoring Bias 2)Availability Heuristic bias 3)Bandwagon Bias 4)Choice Supportive Bias 5)Confirmation Bias 6)Ostrich Bias 7)Outcome Bias 8)Overconfidence 9)Placebo bias 10)Survivorship Bias 11)Selective Perception Bias 12)Blind Spot Bias What I make my videos with: http://bit.ly/2fPakuK Insta: https://www.instagram.com/practical_psych/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/practical_psych Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/practicalpsych Check out MY Passive Income Ebook: http://bit.ly/PsychologyIncome
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Learning how to critically think was the best and worst thing to happen to me. Yes, it made me smarter, but it made me realize how stupid the world really is.
0:18 Anchoring Bias (1st information disproportionately influence later jugements. Related to contrast effect) 1:22 Availability Bias (Focusing on what you know / what is shown. Lack of perspective) 2:22 Bandwagon Effect (Aka group thinking. Doing like the others, social pressure) 3:09 Choice Supportive Bias (A choice unknowingly becomes cue of superiority and feed filtering effects. Fanboys, religion, partisanism) 3:50 Confirmation Bias (Only searching for proofs aligned with point of view. Misinterpret contradictory evidences to support current world view) 4:30 Ostrich Bias (Ignore or rationalize negative information) 5:20 Outcome Bias (Base the effectiveness of a decision on its outcome, neglecting other factors. Basis for superstition. See fooled by randomness or the drunkard's walk.) 6:12 Overconfidence (Stop making decision based on facts after a series of successes) 6:52 Placebo Effect (The belief of an outcome improves its likeness. I'm not sure why it's classified as a bias) 7:44 Survivorship Bias (Only taking into account the positive outcomes, which gives irrelevant correlations) 8:32 Selective Perception (Ostrich + Confirmation combined?) 9:08 Blindspot Bias (Thinking that we are less biased than the next folk)
This should be a part of an elementary school teaching!
The 5th bias is so confirmed with me! For example, each time I finish a show, a movie or an anime, I'll be looking for a confirmation of my opinion about those. If I dislike a work, unconscously I wanna be reassured in my choice.
Got to watch out for those cows
0:18 Anchoring bias 1:23 Availability Heuristic Bias 2:24 Bandwagon effect 3:09 Choice supportive bias 3:49 Confirmation bias 4:28 Ostrich Bias 5:18 Outcome bias 6:12 Overconfidence 6:52 Placebo bias 7:44 Survivorship bias 8:30 Selective perception
Actual as never. But take into account the 13 type: "bias bias bias" - when you think you can avoid bias by knowing that you are also experiencing some bias.
Criticizing and being honest with oneself is key of resisting our biases. Also knowing them and understanding them very well to spot them whenever we fall into one of them. Having friends who always tell you that you're biased when you're biased, smart trust worthy ones, also helps. Our biases are a cancer that we cannot fight alone.
Ignore Ostrich Bias and it will go away :)
Here's a list of recommended books for detailed understanding of the biases: 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 2. Cognitive Illusions - A Handbook on Fallacies and Biases in Thinking, Judgement and Memory Edited by Rüdiger F. Pohl 3. The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli
love learning this stuff! :-)
I have worked with a lot of medical scientists and to my surprise, most of them have at least one of these biases. These biases, in addition to publication bias, greatly impact what we believe as Science and this is alarming. It is time for the scientists to be educated on these biases and they should be empowered to find the truth instead of the pressure to publish paper.
Choice supportive bias is actually a great thing when you get married.
First comment bias
I will not let my positive bias for this channel trick me into learning something about my biases
#10 is something I always tell people when they say “there’s so much rubbish music around these days.” It was always so, it’s just that time has filtered out the poor music and what’s left after this sifting is the “better” or longer lasting / more familiar tunes.
loved this one ;)
Now, you're a pretty smart guy and you can take some constructive criticism, so I hope you understand I mean this in a good way. It's just two points: 1. These explanations were really good, and the title describes exactly what the video is about, but I miss the practical side. Usually I wouldn't be an ass about this, but since this channel is called Practical Psychology I did miss some ways to recognise and/or fight the biases. 2. I think at the placebo / nocebo part you could have gone further, into self-fulfilling prophecies. I've experienced some pretty bad effects of these in my own life and I think it would be nice to have some more information and tips on them. But maybe that's too far off topic. Other than that I think the video is pretty good.
i have no idea whats this about... but based on the video likes, i totally agree with him😂😂😂
What if you have a combination of plcaebo and ostrich bias?I think is the worst combination because it can trap you in a loop of believing that you will achieve something but not doing anything to achieve it.Simply a lazy dreamer.