Cognitive Biases - Business Insider

ellen's bookmarks 2014-06-20

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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...

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http://www.businessinsider.com/cognitive-biases-2014-6?op=1

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06/20/2014, 13:11

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06/20/2014, 09:11