Showing posts with label cognitive bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cognitive bias. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Picking Winners

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By Gary Berg-Cross A form of March Madness is leaving the bracket-littered scene, but it provides lingering thoughts about what is gi...
Sunday, November 11, 2012

Wow look at That!: Attention, Worry and Distraction

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By Gary Berg-Cross The recently completed, and ever so long, election process is only one of the Big things that have commanded ...
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Thinking like Benjamin Franklin

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By Gary Berg-Cross There are many reasons to celebrate Ben Franklin – the “First American.”   We celebrate him as a complex m...
Friday, June 15, 2012

Being “Smart” Doesn’t Mean There Aren’t Blind Spots

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by Gary Berg-Cross Smart vs. dumb seems like a simple dichotomy. No one likes to thought of as dumb, let along being call...
Monday, May 21, 2012

Thinking that We Know and the Science of Thinking

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by Gary Berg-Cross 2002 Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman delivers the free 12th Annual Sackler Lecture tonight at 6 at t...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Understanding Confirmatory Bias and Dead End Arguments

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By Gary Berg-Cross In her popular blog “ General Myers and His Endless War on Error”, Sarah Hippolitus took on PZ Myers essay , Sunda...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Rationalizing Irrational Choices: That $45 entree and presidential choices

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By Gary Berg-Cross The size of the Sunday supplement is one sign that officially holiday shopping season. Modern day products and thei...