Cognitive Biases - Business Insider
ellen's bookmarks 2014-06-20
Summary:
Really a friend just posted this and I was thinking about a debate I was in about some personal stuff last night. these are just short digestible reminders of the biases that affect everything--how does this relate to Big D? (or as Anthony just suggested Bad Ass D (which by the way has the acronym BAD as in Bad Data). Does the fact that it's "tech " make people think it's less or more likely to be accurate? Is there a new bias for that ? How much bias is built into algorithm from go (and then if it's self-learning do the seeds just grow bigger/implode). How much in interpretation? I like these reminders that we aren't divorced from our old cognitive selves--while wondering how much real advantage by moving from human to data...