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.
It's a bummer, you discover how messed up the world is because of human attitudes. We are a small tribe, not appreciated for our knowledge, but the world needs us to keep the balance.
Seeker 7 speak your mind out, listen to new ideas or opposite postures and compare them with yours. Criticizing everything works too, but only if your are willing to be open to new ideas. Sorry for my bad english
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.
@@billygnosis6976 You don't need this list as you just effortlessly gno things, right? Gnosis is the oldest conspiracy theory ever recorded. Haha. As in the ploy of insisting "Everything you've ever been taught is wrong" it's as old as narcissism.
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)
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.
I haven't seen the hard numbers, but I've heard that smart people are just as susceptible, and in some cases even moreso, to many if not most of these biases.
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.
Talha TETBIRT the tip to becoming a better person, get more money, fix an addiction, is to change the envorinment. For example, you want to become wealthier? Get better friends, because that will make you more productive. We as humans, are a reflection of our own enviroment
Personally I agree with everything there, but I think that there should also be some small bit of forgiveness for some bit of bias simply because it's human to be biased sometimes, and not just simply as a cancer (such as if somebody had a bias that counteracts a fact then an external or internal intervention would be needed, but since most biased are developed due to cultural/environmental influence or personal experience that affects someone's development into their perception/worldview/identity that everyone goes through to simply live and exist, then maybe some heuristic should be balanced out together with logic).
The real bias, is the bias against 'biases'. In real time, these biases/heuristics lead directly and indirectly into new insights. For example, with confirmation bias, it helps serve as empirical evidence towards what we believe . For example, with confirmation bias if "we tend to confirm information we believe" through multiple lines of information, in a certain situation, then there is probably something factual about what we believe, and we know its safe to spend more time on rigorously justifying/proving it. Where as linear thinkers tend to miss on the opportunity. That is a tenant of EMPIRICISM - NOT A BIAS. There is a difference between using a bias to make a quick and impulsive decision in a trivial situation, for which there is little at stake, and using a sense of our biases (in harmony with rationality) towards solving critical problems. In effect, these anti-bias proponents are merely talented straw-man engineers; mostly achievement < IQ types and graying anglophiles who indulge in a deluded sense of intellectual worth.
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.
#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.
That actually sounds right. I thought it was also because the tunes of your youth are familiar to you. They are the preset standard you use to judge music in your head and you're comfortable with those sounds. You know them and understand them better than the lyrics and sounds of another generation. It's like living in your house with a twin sized bed. If you stay the night at a friend's in another twin size but the firmness is different you might be uncomfortable....that's been my perception.
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
@@__-yz1ob There is evidence to support this view, with Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq reporting the highest number of terrorist attacks nationally in 2018. Overall, 2018 saw just over 8,000 terrorist attacks worldwide, and around 33,000 fatalities from terrorism.
I'm a mostly self taught artist. "you don't know what you don't know" is my creed. That's why I welcome constructive criticism. Interesting to see another person use it.
@@eldrickzero4885 Yeah, I do, and watch tutorials. There are those books that cover theory and explain how to do stuff and those are very useful to me but there are others that just show you stages of a work with a little caption underneath and they aren't very useful to me but they are numerous so you have to separate the wheat from chaff. Similarly, I prefer tutorials over time lapse videos. It's the way I am, I need to know the why of things.
I like how fast you talk and how you get right to the point. I'm someone with little patience for "fluff" content, so I appreciate getting just the facts.
This is one of the REALEST (& one of the very 1st) 'lessons' I learned when I started this journey 30yrs ago...Was also completely unaware of the true nature of the journey that I'd begun.
Outcome bias is very prevalent in minor league hockey, which was something I figured out before I even knew what cognitive biases were. Someone would do something wrong and end up scoring, but rather than being criticized by the coach, their actions were perceived as good because they scored from it.
"If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" This is a common question, used to challenge a decision based on the bandwagon effect. It challenges someone to consider whether something is really a good idea, even if everyone else does it (in this case, friends). The sentence is, upon closer analysis, a straw man attack that over-extrapolates the bandwagon effect.
A few of these sound very similar to each other. Several of these cognitive failures result in ignoring and disputing evidence that contradicts your views. Choice Supportive Bias, Anchoring Bias, Confirmation Bias, Ostrich Bias all seem geared toward defending the opinion you have.
WOW -- AMAZING -- INTELLIGENT. I, for one, am fascinated with psychology, decision making, critical thinking, and now biases. Your video is one of the best that I've seen in quite some time. Your narration is spot on, and your examples/definitions of each bias are precise. I like the whimsical approach to covering what some would think is a boring topic. GREAT WORK, and thank you for sharing your time and wisdom.
Great stuff. The selective perception bias was most interesting. I can immediately see the implications in business context and how you present information. Thanks
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.
HarryYese the placebo/nocebo effect can impact you postively or negatively. It actually played a large role in "self-improvement" for some because after being told that doing X will make you be come a better person yada yada. they will "experience" the benefit even if it cannot be proven, such as giving offerings to their God or church and after that they felt "blessed" or luckier than before.
Well yes Data ´can´ be bad but ones own experiences are very narrow EG. Once a dog bit me , do I conclude from that all dogs will bight me, taking a look at dog attack statistics would tell in fact that serious dog attacks are extremely rare.
There was a sign I would see for about 2 years driving over state lines, but it read "A pitbull killed our elderly grandmother!" Just propaganda, I've seen plenty of pitbulls in Chi and Mil to not feel like they're going to all attack me based on what the sign was attempting to infer. I was more likely to be shot by a police officer doing the job I had, which was breaking into houses on behalf of the banks that owned the house after the tenants couldn't afford the mortgage. Or had a reverse mortgage... Eugh.
To me your not describing what I understood to be "gut reaction" rather Knowledge of canine behaviour, I think I get what your trying to say though ; Funny thing is I´m quite afraid of flying according to statistics flying is the safest way to travel doesn´t help me much knowing that either. Still I believe knowledge and statistics maybe with a bit of intuition can be useful in determining a course of action ;-) Have a nice day.
The real bias, is the bias against 'biases'. In real time, these biases/heuristics lead directly and indirectly into new insights. For example, with confirmation bias, it helps serve as empirical evidence towards what we believe . For example, with confirmation bias if "we tend to confirm information we believe" through multiple lines of information, in a certain situation, then there is probably something factual about what we believe, and we know its safe to spend more time on rigorously justifying/proving it. Where as linear thinkers tend to miss on the opportunity. That is a tenant of EMPIRICISM - NOT A BIAS. There is a difference between using a bias to make a quick and impulsive decision in a trivial situation, for which there is little at stake, and using a sense of our biases (in harmony with rationality) towards solving critical problems. In effect, these anti-bias proponents are merely talented straw-man engineers; mostly achievement < IQ types and graying anglophiles who indulge in a deluded sense of intellectual worth.
4. I actually force myself to have a choice supportive bias to make myself not regret anything in the future. Choosing your laptop, smartphone, piano or even your college requires a lot of planning and research (at least for me). So once I've made choice, I'm like screw it I've made the best choice.
The bandwagon effect is interesting. It can actually be quite logical to accept the opinion of the group. First of all you may trust the opinion of the group more than your own. Second you may not care to put in the effort to arrive at your own conclusion but it may be troublesome for whatever reason to simply not have an opinion on the matter. Third we are social creatures and it rarely pays to be the sole naysayer in a group, being accepted may be more important than being right.
Hey man! Your channel is full of knowledge and useful psicological tips which everyone can improve, train, and be happier, as I am now! Thanks for those, they're awesome!
These are all critical flaws in human processing, yet they are deeply ingrained in everyone. Helps explain the friction we see today. Two people, each w a mountain of biases, going round and round.
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.
3:42 ... i’m glad you mentioned “not the pooping part”, you picked up my jaw from the floor, no time wasted. I’d gone 😱 ... and then you immediately straighten me out. 😁
Bias isn't a bad thing, it's a trait of logic that will never go away, and will never not be used in any decision. The only thing about biases is to not let them control your thinking completely, and recognize to which degree a bias is forming your opinion.
The fact you think bias has anything to do with logic just shows you understand nothing about the nature of logic. Go take a philosophy course and you will find out how dumb that statement is.
"Bias Bias" Someone acknowledging that everyone has bias , but constantly cries victim from any made up bias instead of acknowledging their own short comings.
Very interesting. Thank you. To limit our own bias, I know only experience and improvement. But how do we reduce bias among others. That is the big question. Do you have a video on that ?
When my daughter was about to go up to high school, I naturally chose the best school (based on their performance) in the area. This school had an entrance exam that, reluctantly, she sat and passed. Unfortunately, this was NOT the school she wanted to attend, because most of her friends would be going to another school. This other school didn't have any entrance exam and it's results were pretty poor (less than 2% going on to higher education). Eventually I got my way and she went to the "better" school. A few months in and, despite her usual excellent grades, she still wasn't happy. I naturally just reiterated the better performance figures of her school and she blew my mind with her logic. "Of course they get better results, they only admit over achievers. Their success rate is NOT down to their teaching, it's down to the students they have" With that I finally agreed to let her transfer to the school of her choice. She went on to have great success, being the first in this "poorly performing" school to be accepted into a prestigious university (Cambridge). This made me very conscious of the bias I had shown for that school based on outcomes. I don't know if this bias has a name but it's something I now notice in so many other situations.
Band wagon bias and group think is definitely a problem today. The best way to learn "truth" is to learn about viewpoints that you disagree with or are uncomfortable. Often you gain some very important insight.
Many of those bleed into each other; also several of the examples could fit more than one category. Suffice it to say that 1. First impressions count for a lot. 2. Fear and hope are powerful influences. 3. We shape our own realities.
You can watch the video as many times as you need to understand it. (Also some youtube players let you play the video slower.) Personally I watched at 2x speed and felt it had good pacing, even if I didn't agree with all of the content.
Good video. Well presented. Not to complicated for beginners but still very informative. Maybe a little too fast in delivery, but that's something you can do something about very easily. Ever thought about doing a series on these things, following on from this video? Take each one in turn and do a video, looking in more depth at each bias and then examining ways in which they've hindered a situation and looking at ways in which that hindrance can be avoided ... that sort of thing? Just an idea... Enjoy!
Dude,, slow down, it seems like you just did 10 lines of Peruvian flake and shot a video,, slow it down,, great video, loved it, just do it slower,, please
I thought the speed was perfect (as I find most videos talk too slowly and have to watch at 1.5x speed) but RUclips allows you to alter the playback speed to suit your preference.
How about that, we have something in common with them. Wait. I don't get much sleep and don't really have a lot to eat. Sometimes it gets me so upset I can barely breathe. Down with the bourgeoisie.
Just an observation, but the list of 'labelled biases" are in themselves biased. Context, who or what asserts these are "the" biases all people are subject to, and will have the same reaction to? Again, this video assumes "authority" in it's premise from the beginning, like many others do.One can present research studies, "peer reviewed" articles, or any other data one cares to, it means nothing, if all of it is wrong. And, as long as there are "unknowns" within human existence, or "unanswered" questions...there is no right or wrong answers, other than,"we don't know". When dealing with the human mind, not brain function, no 2 people think the same, so attempting to describe "bias" is a moot point.
Some may confuse "group think" with " extremely similar" decision making. It's the basic "tubal" mentality. Under clinical conditions, separated from the 'group", exposed to various stimuli, individuals have expressed decisions or views that counter those while the subjects are in a 'group" environment. Yes, research in " cognitive neuroscience" has expanded our understanding the "workings" of the brain, but the "mind", and it's role is still a relatively " unknown" element. At least, that is what I have learned from the top experts in the field of brain research Even these experts have admitted there are "things" within the human brain's functioning, they just don't know. Job security..
The main problem is that "cognitive biases" are taken as being a synonym to "mistakes", in this realm of logical thinking and psychology. A more accurate term would be "mistakes commonly made by regular people due to cognitive biases". So, generally speaking, these "bias lists" are mainly judgmental processes that happen to be imprecise or inadequate in certain currently common (social) circumstances. And I believe THE MAIN factor behind all of it is the heavy influence that things such as television, internet. etc. have on the mental construction of reality by many people. Thereby people develop a mental process that turns out to be inadequate to their everyday real life, and then tend to present similar types of mistakes (since the main cause is similar, i.e. _outlier_ world events of great tragedy or great success, internalized via mass media propagation).
It's important to recognize biases and do our best to make decisions based on empirical data. But just because our thoughts and decisions are biased doesn't mean that our process for making it is necessarily poor. For example, outcome bias is one of the best decision-making methods available, because the interaction of variables within complex or chaotic systems makes it impractical or impossible to make good, data-based decisions when there are enough unknown variables. It is much more beneficial to cultivate a sort of "chaos intuition" so that we can consciously or unconsciously recognize the patterns that have led to desired outcomes, and do our best to replicate those conditions. Confirmation bias and selective perception can be similarly beneficial, as long as we're willing to fit our beliefs and perceptions to our experience of objective reality, however imperfect or subjective that experience is. Obviously, the more objectively informed our opinions and decisions are, the more reliable they will be. But we should recognize that gaps in knowledge or the impracticality of data collection may make it necessary to rely on imperfect, subjective cognitive processes. This really isn't a huge barrier if we're intentional about cultivating these processes to our advantage.
As someone who struggles with escapism, I particularly fall too deep when encountering the Ostrich bias. Hate it so much since it also goes along with "feelings" (or what my brain wants to feel/expect) despite outcomes not meeting what l envisioned.
While it is a great video, you seem to have arrived at an erroneous conclusion regarding terrorists. If you happen to have lived in Syria or Iraq in the last couple of years your odds of being killed by a terrorist was much higher. The concern is that we do not want it to spread to here, not how much we have, though we have had some terrorists.
Selective Perception Bias detected. =p He was referring to the West (i.e., USA). And the Media here spends an Exorbitant amount of time spreading Fear of Terrorism knocking on our door-steps. Pushing this Fear on people like we are under "attack". If this was just about the probability of it spreading here, like he mentioned, the Statistics prove that this is very Rare.
It also depends what kind of a person you are for getting killed by a cop. If you're out committing crime, then the odds of you getting killed by a cop are significantly higher than someone who has never and will never commit any crimes.
***** But, even though rare, they are still taking away our rights. There actions have the desired effect. For example, You now must be searched to go onto an air plane, for example. You are trying to use the logical fallacy of false equivalents. You are trying to minimize the actions of these people who are trying to bully us. You are simply being an Muslim apologist and you are suffering from Stockholm's syndrome.
Sesquipedaliofobia You sound like you are upset about Bigotry to me. You are blaming the wrong people for your woes. Consider this, if Blacks did not commit many more crimes than anyone else, the bigotry levels would drop quite a bit. So you are there blaming everyone but the Black people who are causing the problems that you are whining about. Go out there on your crusade to save the world and tell Black people to act like good people. Then the majority of Black people who are good and decent people will quit being treated poorly due to the actions of the minority or Black people who are committing all of these crimes. This is what you would do if you wanted to stop bigotry. What you seem to want to do instead, is to sit around and be a bigot yourself hating white people.
Sure keep soaking in all of the Mainstreams Islamophobia with gusto and letting them tell you How to think while they continue to rake in Huge Profits from Oil, War and all your Fears ..
There is a similar thing when you notice things that have to do something with you. I've never in my life saw a person using wireless headphones IRL until I bought them and saw 3 people using them the same day. Oh that's actually #11
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
You forgot last one.
9:05 Blind Spot bias
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.
It's a bummer, you discover how messed up the world is because of human attitudes. We are a small tribe, not appreciated for our knowledge, but the world needs us to keep the balance.
Can you recommend any sources on learning about critical thinking?
Seeker 7 speak your mind out, listen to new ideas or opposite postures and compare them with yours. Criticizing everything works too, but only if your are willing to be open to new ideas. Sorry for my bad english
How do you know you didn't just substitute an old bias with a blind spot bias? :)
This sounds like a blind spot bias? Lol
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.
wow.....that was really stupid......hows that.......
@@billygnosis6976 You don't need this list as you just effortlessly gno things, right? Gnosis is the oldest conspiracy theory ever recorded. Haha. As in the ploy of insisting
"Everything you've ever been taught is wrong"
it's as old as narcissism.
@@veronica_._._._ how do yo mean? I am a confused as to your point.
@@billygnosis6976 Gnosis: mystical or esoteric knowing.
At least you are aware of it, which means you can actively work on it.
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)
Thanks
Outcome bias is also known as hindsight bias
Thanks
Where can i learn all this
@@geraldmakori6627 in the video
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.
I haven't seen the hard numbers, but I've heard that smart people are just as susceptible, and in some cases even moreso, to many if not most of these biases.
Faith in science is a bias itself.
@@MAX-tw3qz ^ stupidity bias.
You missed the point. Everyone has these biases periodically. You don't just have one of them.
@@scambammer6102 What I actually meant was not only having the biases but they practice it without being aware of such biases.
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.
Talha TETBIRT the tip to becoming a better person, get more money, fix an addiction, is to change the envorinment. For example, you want to become wealthier? Get better friends, because that will make you more productive. We as humans, are a reflection of our own enviroment
Personally I agree with everything there, but I think that there should also be some small bit of forgiveness for some bit of bias simply because it's human to be biased sometimes, and not just simply as a cancer (such as if somebody had a bias that counteracts a fact then an external or internal intervention would be needed, but since most biased are developed due to cultural/environmental influence or personal experience that affects someone's development into their perception/worldview/identity that everyone goes through to simply live and exist, then maybe some heuristic should be balanced out together with logic).
The real bias, is the bias against 'biases'. In real time, these biases/heuristics lead directly and indirectly into new insights. For example, with confirmation bias, it helps serve as empirical evidence towards what we believe . For example, with confirmation bias if "we tend to confirm information we believe" through multiple lines of information, in a certain situation, then there is probably something factual about what we believe, and we know its safe to spend more time on rigorously justifying/proving it. Where as linear thinkers tend to miss on the opportunity. That is a tenant of EMPIRICISM - NOT A BIAS. There is a difference between using a bias to make a quick and impulsive decision in a trivial situation, for which there is little at stake, and using a sense of our biases (in harmony with rationality) towards solving critical problems. In effect, these anti-bias proponents are merely talented straw-man engineers; mostly achievement < IQ types and graying anglophiles who indulge in a deluded sense of intellectual worth.
What if you haven't done anything wrong? Some people do manage to get well and get on with their lives.
Fat friends will keep you fat. It's true.
Dangerous stuff
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.
While listening to a song by Joan Bias.
Bias-ception
Infinite regression
Renat Khanzarov That's true, the old "to err is human, to forgive divine" comes to my mind.
You are thinking of gi Joe's bias.
#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.
That actually sounds right. I thought it was also because the tunes of your youth are familiar to you. They are the preset standard you use to judge music in your head and you're comfortable with those sounds. You know them and understand them better than the lyrics and sounds of another generation. It's like living in your house with a twin sized bed. If you stay the night at a friend's in another twin size but the firmness is different you might be uncomfortable....that's been my perception.
I will not let my positive bias for this channel trick me into learning something about my biases
Wise words, master Yoda
You win!
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
"Mistakes were made but not by me" is a good one too.
Lot of bull crappy. terrorists killed an average of 21,000 people worldwide each year.
@@TopSpinWilly
Wut?
@@__-yz1ob There is evidence to support this view, with Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq reporting the highest number of terrorist attacks nationally in 2018. Overall, 2018 saw just over 8,000 terrorist attacks worldwide, and around 33,000 fatalities from terrorism.
Have you read all three of them?
I've read the last one art of thinking clearly. Would love hearing from you on how you liked all these books
Ignore Ostrich Bias and it will go away :)
xD
No such thing as ostrich bias..
Lapis lazuli
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What ostrich bias??? 🤣😂
I love the effective use of limited colors on the graphics. Brilliant summary of an import set of information indeed!
Thanks for your feedback!
I'm a mostly self taught artist. "you don't know what you don't know" is my creed. That's why I welcome constructive criticism. Interesting to see another person use it.
just read art books and you'll know what you don't know
@@eldrickzero4885 Yeah, I do, and watch tutorials. There are those books that cover theory and explain how to do stuff and those are very useful to me but there are others that just show you stages of a work with a little caption underneath and they aren't very useful to me but they are numerous so you have to separate the wheat from chaff. Similarly, I prefer tutorials over time lapse videos. It's the way I am, I need to know the why of things.
I like how fast you talk and how you get right to the point. I'm someone with little patience for "fluff" content, so I appreciate getting just the facts.
This should be a part of an elementary school teaching!
LEARN POLISH WITH DAREK should be taught to adults too lol
LEARN POLISH WITH DAREK na pewno nie w Polsce, bo Polacy przeciez rodza sie z wszechwiedza!
zgadzam się
I think it could.
I’ve ever created a list of the 17 worst one and how to overcome them:
www.mypersonalcompass.com/habits
Thomas Headley not entirely. You could be born in the wilderness and still experience all of these. It’s the way the brain is naturally wired.
"It's hard to know,what you don't know."
This guy just made my day saying this❤️
but you can know that you don't know something
@@scambammer6102 it's hard but not impossible
This is one of the REALEST (& one of the very 1st) 'lessons' I learned when I started this journey 30yrs ago...Was also completely unaware of the true nature of the journey that I'd begun.
@@scambammer6102"know" is the operative word, friend. 😉💛
Choice supportive bias is actually a great thing when you get married.
No it’s not. Digging a deeper whole
Marriage itself is a humane and emotional event, otherwise it's just a paper.
lol. Keep it up and your going to kill me 😂😂😹😂👍👍
LoL unless you need it to be, in which case it's bad. If you don't need it it's great but then again it d be great without it. LoL.
There is a great cost to ignoring objective reality.
love learning this stuff! :-)
Check out Malcolm Gladwell's books.
@@Ratboy2004 which one?
@@someothername9462 1) Blink! ; 2) The Tipping Point {interesting marketing-related}; 3) David vs. Goliath ; 4) The Outliers .
This should be seen by every person on earth. Cognitive biases are the reason for a lot of the problems we have today.
Outcome bias is very prevalent in minor league hockey, which was something I figured out before I even knew what cognitive biases were. Someone would do something wrong and end up scoring, but rather than being criticized by the coach, their actions were perceived as good because they scored from it.
Dayum. This is material I'm going to put into my kids curriculum. Excellent content
"If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" This is a common question, used to challenge a decision based on the bandwagon effect. It challenges someone to consider whether something is really a good idea, even if everyone else does it (in this case, friends). The sentence is, upon closer analysis, a straw man attack that over-extrapolates the bandwagon effect.
A few of these sound very similar to each other. Several of these cognitive failures result in ignoring and disputing evidence that contradicts your views. Choice Supportive Bias, Anchoring Bias, Confirmation Bias, Ostrich Bias all seem geared toward defending the opinion you have.
0:00 Intro
0:19 ANCHORING BIAS
1:22 AVAILABILITY HEURISTIC BIAS
2:23 BANDWAGON EFFECT
3:09 CHOICE SUPPORTIVE BIAS
3:51 CONFIRMATION BIAS
4:30 OSTRICH BIAS
5:21 OUTCOME BIAS
6:13 OVERCONFIDENCE
6:53 PLACEBO BIAS
7:44 SURVIVORSHIP BIAS
8:31 SELECTIVE PERCEPTION
9:08 BLIND SPOT BIAS
9:45 ISMONOFFTV
WOW -- AMAZING -- INTELLIGENT. I, for one, am fascinated with psychology, decision making, critical thinking, and now biases. Your video is one of the best that I've seen in quite some time. Your narration is spot on, and your examples/definitions of each bias are precise. I like the whimsical approach to covering what some would think is a boring topic. GREAT WORK, and thank you for sharing your time and wisdom.
Great stuff. The selective perception bias was most interesting. I can immediately see the implications in business context and how you present information. Thanks
Love the video and good job on the research Ismonofftv! Keep up the good work guys!
Glad you enjoyed :D
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.
+HarryYese awesome, thanks for the feedback!
HarryYese the placebo/nocebo effect can impact you postively or negatively. It actually played a large role in "self-improvement" for some because after being told that doing X will make you be come a better person yada yada. they will "experience" the benefit even if it cannot be proven, such as giving offerings to their God or church and after that they felt "blessed" or luckier than before.
Well yes Data ´can´ be bad but ones own experiences are very narrow EG. Once a dog bit me , do I conclude from that all dogs will bight me, taking a look at dog attack statistics would tell in fact that serious dog attacks are extremely rare.
There was a sign I would see for about 2 years driving over state lines, but it read "A pitbull killed our elderly grandmother!" Just propaganda, I've seen plenty of pitbulls in Chi and Mil to not feel like they're going to all attack me based on what the sign was attempting to infer. I was more likely to be shot by a police officer doing the job I had, which was breaking into houses on behalf of the banks that owned the house after the tenants couldn't afford the mortgage. Or had a reverse mortgage... Eugh.
To me your not describing what I understood to be "gut reaction" rather Knowledge of canine behaviour, I think I get what your trying to say though ; Funny thing is I´m quite afraid of flying according to statistics flying is the safest way to travel doesn´t help me much knowing that either. Still I believe knowledge and statistics maybe with a bit of intuition can be useful in determining a course of action ;-) Have a nice day.
I like how you talk quickly and get to the point without a lot of blah blah blah. Good video!
The real bias, is the bias against 'biases'. In real time, these biases/heuristics lead directly and indirectly into new insights. For example, with confirmation bias, it helps serve as empirical evidence towards what we believe . For example, with confirmation bias if "we tend to confirm information we believe" through multiple lines of information, in a certain situation, then there is probably something factual about what we believe, and we know its safe to spend more time on rigorously justifying/proving it. Where as linear thinkers tend to miss on the opportunity. That is a tenant of EMPIRICISM - NOT A BIAS. There is a difference between using a bias to make a quick and impulsive decision in a trivial situation, for which there is little at stake, and using a sense of our biases (in harmony with rationality) towards solving critical problems. In effect, these anti-bias proponents are merely talented straw-man engineers; mostly achievement < IQ types and graying anglophiles who indulge in a deluded sense of intellectual worth.
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I actually force myself to have a choice supportive bias to make myself not regret anything in the future.
Choosing your laptop, smartphone, piano or even your college requires a lot of planning and research (at least for me).
So once I've made choice, I'm like screw it I've made the best choice.
The bandwagon effect is interesting. It can actually be quite logical to accept the opinion of the group. First of all you may trust the opinion of the group more than your own. Second you may not care to put in the effort to arrive at your own conclusion but it may be troublesome for whatever reason to simply not have an opinion on the matter. Third we are social creatures and it rarely pays to be the sole naysayer in a group, being accepted may be more important than being right.
Hey man! Your channel is full of knowledge and useful psicological tips which everyone can improve, train, and be happier, as I am now! Thanks for those, they're awesome!
I like your style: clear, direct, and unpretentious.
These are all critical flaws in human processing, yet they are deeply ingrained in everyone. Helps explain the friction we see today. Two people, each w a mountain of biases, going round and round.
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.
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why is that a bad thing? A hard working realist? that's not fun
loved this one ;)
+Dany Lebedev Travel and Fitness Diary Thanks!
@@PracticalPsychologyTips Uhm, "taking a decision"? 🧐
Switched on dude! Good job, this is great content here. You think super smart! 🌟
3:42 ... i’m glad you mentioned “not the pooping part”, you picked up my jaw from the floor, no time wasted.
I’d gone 😱 ... and then you immediately straighten me out.
😁
"Selective Perception ... I like this one"
Bias isn't a bad thing, it's a trait of logic that will never go away, and will never not be used in any decision. The only thing about biases is to not let them control your thinking completely, and recognize to which degree a bias is forming your opinion.
bias prohibits critical thinking, which is crucial for advancement of research in ANY field.
@@kyanovp1915 BIAS is underlying program and it is very good to recognize
Bias is NOT a trait of logic 🤪
The fact you think bias has anything to do with logic just shows you understand nothing about the nature of logic. Go take a philosophy course and you will find out how dumb that statement is.
This comment was written by a bias
"Bias Bias" Someone acknowledging that everyone has bias , but constantly cries victim from any made up bias instead of acknowledging their own short comings.
Found this channel through this vid. Scrolling through, pretty stoked to watch like half your videos!
be skeptical.....but learn to listen. Don't blindly trust anyones POV.....especially your own.
Thank you for teaching us critical thinking in much-needed times.
Critical and objective. Objectivity is just as important
Got to watch out for those cows
Devin sloan and coconuts
Devin sloan and the po police
especially the police
Cows gotta watch out for those humans. Killing them on purpose, for no good reason. #govegan
I have a strict Anti-cow policy. Kill them whenever possible.
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Very interesting. Thank you. To limit our own bias, I know only experience and improvement. But how do we reduce bias among others. That is the big question. Do you have a video on that ?
When my daughter was about to go up to high school, I naturally chose the best school (based on their performance) in the area. This school had an entrance exam that, reluctantly, she sat and passed. Unfortunately, this was NOT the school she wanted to attend, because most of her friends would be going to another school. This other school didn't have any entrance exam and it's results were pretty poor (less than 2% going on to higher education). Eventually I got my way and she went to the "better" school.
A few months in and, despite her usual excellent grades, she still wasn't happy. I naturally just reiterated the better performance figures of her school and she blew my mind with her logic. "Of course they get better results, they only admit over achievers. Their success rate is NOT down to their teaching, it's down to the students they have"
With that I finally agreed to let her transfer to the school of her choice. She went on to have great success, being the first in this "poorly performing" school to be accepted into a prestigious university (Cambridge). This made me very conscious of the bias I had shown for that school based on outcomes. I don't know if this bias has a name but it's something I now notice in so many other situations.
Your voice is so nice to hear to. And your vids do really help me!
+RED h.c. thanks!
EVER HEARD OF self respect?
kERMIT??
I m stunned to know that there is also a Bias for bias😂😍
First comment bias
xD
Yeah...first comment bias.
I paid more attention to this comment because the RUclips Channel owner replied here. What kind of bias is this?
Lot of bull crappy. terrorists killed an average of 21,000 people worldwide each year.
Band wagon bias and group think is definitely a problem today. The best way to learn "truth" is to learn about viewpoints that you disagree with or are uncomfortable. Often you gain some very important insight.
Valuable pieces of information, everyone should listen to.
Hey can you make a video about the bystander effect? I feel like people should know about it.
I just realised i came here to confirm what i already know🤦♂️
😂🤣😂
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I realized that I have a confirmation bias when I do an academic research. I do not want to learn something new.
I see, i have the same thing. That's why i'm searching for stuff like this xD
Many of those bleed into each other; also several of the examples could fit more than one category.
Suffice it to say that
1. First impressions count for a lot.
2. Fear and hope are powerful influences.
3. We shape our own realities.
You explain things so clearly and logically.
After Sandeep maheshwari parenting video😂😂😂
I know your dream is to became financially free at the age of thirty.. 😅
Hello there. Please slow down it's too fast for us to understand and to really capture what such things really means. HAPPY NEW YEAR BTW
You can watch the video as many times as you need to understand it. (Also some youtube players let you play the video slower.) Personally I watched at 2x speed and felt it had good pacing, even if I didn't agree with all of the content.
Andre Kang I watch School of Life for just that reason ☺
Good video. Well presented. Not to complicated for beginners but still very informative. Maybe a little too fast in delivery, but that's something you can do something about very easily. Ever thought about doing a series on these things, following on from this video? Take each one in turn and do a video, looking in more depth at each bias and then examining ways in which they've hindered a situation and looking at ways in which that hindrance can be avoided ... that sort of thing?
Just an idea... Enjoy!
Really well explained
Wonderful explanations.
Anyone after Sandeep Maheshwari video?
I know your dream is to became financially free...
Dude,, slow down, it seems like you just did 10 lines of Peruvian flake and shot a video,, slow it down,, great video, loved it, just do it slower,, please
Yeah, do some Oaxaca Brown first instead.
Played it back at 0,75x speed but then he gets drunk on top of it all...
I thought the speed was perfect (as I find most videos talk too slowly and have to watch at 1.5x speed) but RUclips allows you to alter the playback speed to suit your preference.
probably means you need to get up to speed with the world LOL
Damn, English is not my native language and I could understand perfectly.
"Not the pooping part!" ...no, my friend, it is totally the pooping part!
Agreed
Hey I enjoyed watching the video! I'm here from my finance class at JU!
i love how u put them in alphabetical order, so that was easier for me to transfer stuff u said to my Word doc where i list so amny of these things
I guess I have a bias against having to put a name to every thought in my head.
Lot of bull crappy. terrorists killed an average of 21,000 people worldwide each year.
I think it's amazing how his thick black Sharpie can write in multiple colours, produce nuanced shadings, and make lines of multiple widths.
4 things the richest 1% of the world do almost every day:
- Breathe
- Eat
- Sleep
- Think
B E S T
@@tesspulido never actually noticed that
How about that, we have something in common with them. Wait. I don't get much sleep and don't really have a lot to eat. Sometimes it gets me so upset I can barely breathe. Down with the bourgeoisie.
-poop
r/technicallythetruth
Nice! Informative and helpful
Good information. Thank you for sharing
After sandeep maheswari video 👍
I know your dream is to became financially free...
Just an observation, but the list of 'labelled biases" are in themselves biased. Context, who or what asserts these are "the" biases all people are subject to, and will have the same reaction to?
Again, this video assumes "authority" in it's premise from the beginning, like many others do.One can present research studies, "peer reviewed" articles, or any other data one cares to, it means nothing, if all of it is wrong.
And, as long as there are "unknowns" within human existence, or "unanswered" questions...there is no right or wrong answers, other than,"we don't know".
When dealing with the human mind, not brain function, no 2 people think the same, so attempting to describe "bias" is a moot point.
Actually, most people's decision making processes are extremely similar. Thank you cognitive neuroscience
Some may confuse "group think" with " extremely similar" decision making. It's the basic "tubal" mentality.
Under clinical conditions, separated from the 'group", exposed to various stimuli, individuals have expressed decisions or views that counter those while the subjects are in a 'group" environment.
Yes, research in " cognitive neuroscience" has expanded our understanding the "workings" of the brain, but the "mind", and it's role is still a relatively " unknown" element.
At least, that is what I have learned from the top experts in the field of brain research
Even these experts have admitted there are "things" within the human brain's functioning, they just don't know.
Job security..
The main problem is that "cognitive biases" are taken as being a synonym to "mistakes", in this realm of logical thinking and psychology. A more accurate term would be "mistakes commonly made by regular people due to cognitive biases". So, generally speaking, these "bias lists" are mainly judgmental processes that happen to be imprecise or inadequate in certain currently common (social) circumstances. And I believe THE MAIN factor behind all of it is the heavy influence that things such as television, internet. etc. have on the mental construction of reality by many people. Thereby people develop a mental process that turns out to be inadequate to their everyday real life, and then tend to present similar types of mistakes (since the main cause is similar, i.e. _outlier_ world events of great tragedy or great success, internalized via mass media propagation).
Kon kon sandip sir ka video dekh kr aaya hain... 😅
I know your dream is to became financially free at the age of thirty.. 😅
@universko bro kaise bhai same
@@shortsvloggeraj I know you want to know who i am...
Great video.! Many people I know need this little glossary...badly.
Thanks for the biases lesson. I learned a lot.
I suffer from zero of these biases. 😂
What do you mean?
It's important to recognize biases and do our best to make decisions based on empirical data. But just because our thoughts and decisions are biased doesn't mean that our process for making it is necessarily poor.
For example, outcome bias is one of the best decision-making methods available, because the interaction of variables within complex or chaotic systems makes it impractical or impossible to make good, data-based decisions when there are enough unknown variables.
It is much more beneficial to cultivate a sort of "chaos intuition" so that we can consciously or unconsciously recognize the patterns that have led to desired outcomes, and do our best to replicate those conditions. Confirmation bias and selective perception can be similarly beneficial, as long as we're willing to fit our beliefs and perceptions to our experience of objective reality, however imperfect or subjective that experience is.
Obviously, the more objectively informed our opinions and decisions are, the more reliable they will be. But we should recognize that gaps in knowledge or the impracticality of data collection may make it necessary to rely on imperfect, subjective cognitive processes. This really isn't a huge barrier if we're intentional about cultivating these processes to our advantage.
My professor is forcing me to watch this vid :(
Same 😂
I’m making my gf watch it…
Good
Then he is a good one.
Based on the initial information I have ...you have a good professor.
Nicely explained . Thank you for sharing.
This is gold here. thank you very much. i will watch it another 2 times
Great video mate.. Loved it..
How is the placebo/nocebo effect a bias?
Because your initial perception, or bias, determines the outcome.
Who came here after Sandeep maheshwari’s video 😂
I know your dream is to became financially free...
@@Universko you know !!! 👀
@@Aayush_Studies Why you consider age 30 so extremely special...
Idk brotha…try else
@@Aayush_Studies you want to know what is the reallity of me who I am..
after Sandeep Maheshwari's video.❤
Yas
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Thank you.. This was a great description
As someone who struggles with escapism, I particularly fall too deep when encountering the Ostrich bias. Hate it so much since it also goes along with "feelings" (or what my brain wants to feel/expect) despite outcomes not meeting what l envisioned.
Best example of placebo bias is homeopathy.
You started but didn't finish with the WHY.
This video was so biased.
Lot of bull crappy. terrorists killed an average of 21,000 people worldwide each year.
@@TopSpinWilly Your name is stupid.
@@anarchySandwich HAHAHA, i love your comment bro
While it is a great video, you seem to have arrived at an erroneous conclusion regarding terrorists. If you happen to have lived in Syria or Iraq in the last couple of years your odds of being killed by a terrorist was much higher. The concern is that we do not want it to spread to here, not how much we have, though we have had some terrorists.
Selective Perception Bias detected. =p
He was referring to the West (i.e., USA). And the Media here spends an Exorbitant amount of time spreading Fear of Terrorism knocking on our door-steps. Pushing this Fear on people like we are under "attack". If this was just about the probability of it spreading here, like he mentioned, the Statistics prove that this is very Rare.
It also depends what kind of a person you are for getting killed by a cop. If you're out committing crime, then the odds of you getting killed by a cop are significantly higher than someone who has never and will never commit any crimes.
***** But, even though rare, they are still taking away our rights. There actions have the desired effect. For example, You now must be searched to go onto an air plane, for example. You are trying to use the logical fallacy of false equivalents. You are trying to minimize the actions of these people who are trying to bully us. You are simply being an Muslim apologist and you are suffering from Stockholm's syndrome.
Sesquipedaliofobia You sound like you are upset about Bigotry to me. You are blaming the wrong people for your woes. Consider this, if Blacks did not commit many more crimes than anyone else, the bigotry levels would drop quite a bit. So you are there blaming everyone but the Black people who are causing the problems that you are whining about. Go out there on your crusade to save the world and tell Black people to act like good people. Then the majority of Black people who are good and decent people will quit being treated poorly due to the actions of the minority or Black people who are committing all of these crimes. This is what you would do if you wanted to stop bigotry. What you seem to want to do instead, is to sit around and be a bigot yourself hating white people.
Sure keep soaking in all of the Mainstreams Islamophobia with gusto and letting them tell you How to think while they continue to rake in Huge Profits from Oil, War and all your Fears ..
There is a similar thing when you notice things that have to do something with you. I've never in my life saw a person using wireless headphones IRL until I bought them and saw 3 people using them the same day. Oh that's actually #11
Thank you for putting the list in the description as well! it makes sense but few channels actually do it. cheers!
Slow your voice way down and dump the thumping rythm in the background and I may watch it.
Nic Maennling not a loss
Kon sandeep maaheshwari ki vedio dekh kar aaya h?? 😃
I know your dream is to became financially free at the age of thirty.. 😅
@@Universko yaa bro and you?
Main bro 😅
@@shortsvloggeraj Does my reply surprises you.
@@Universko where are you from?
Why a 30.000$ car should be sold for 10.000$?
I am saving this and will review this video every few months to keep in mind how my mind can be misled.
Thanks for the video. The selective bias is fascinating!