Tag: cognitive bias
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Don’t get fooled by randomness (or mis- or disinformation)
The mind tricks us into seeing patterns when there are none. This causes all kinds of problems. According to Nassim Taleb, people routinely mistake luck for skill, randomness for determination, and misinformation for fact. These are the factors that cause us to process information incorrectly, and distort our views of the world: All-or-nothing view We…
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Dunning-Kruger: Novices Don’t Know How Much They Don’t Know
This is the model that explains why after two hours into an edX Python course you’re stuffing a backpack, searching for motels in central Menlo Park and muttering gibberish to your cat about s3 buckets and a world-beating app that’s the Uber of dentistry. Still, on the flipside, the model offers solace when you know…