Cognitive bias

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    Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?

    On Twitter, in a thread that went viral, François Chollet, an A.I. software engineer at Google, argued, “Facebook is, in effect, in control of your political beliefs and your worldview.”Photograph by Joe Penniston / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Facebook, […]
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    Impossibly Hungry Judges

    It is up to authors to interpret the effect size in their study, and to show the mechanism through which an effect that is impossibly large, becomes plausible.The Court by William Hogarth (circa 1758) Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . I was listening to a recent Radiolab episode on blame and […]
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    Why You’re Biased About Being Biased

    The more we convince ourselves that we don’t have certain biases, the more likely we are to exhibit them.