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Because it’s come up a lot in recent days, a list of ‘popular’ (really ‘prevalent’) cognitive biases from Wikipedia. A lot of what I’ve been doing over the last several days has been wondering why people misestimate things to the extent that they do, and how to help with that. So, it’s been relevant. A good contrast to cognitive bias is ‘field sense,’ which is some people’s ability to sense their surroundings at an apparent supernatural level. While I don’t aspire to the level that Gretzky has this, it’s a useful perception style to try to develop.
This blog is (again) getting up to steam after a couple of weeks of me working on various projects (and writing more elsewhere), and then vacationing and moving. I’ve also collapsed one of my other blog projects into this one.
Since I last wrote here, I’ve been doing a bit of program management for a company based out of Austin, TX (which is not related to the cognitive biases) and it’s been fun and entertaining although it’s a very short duration project.
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2007 June 07 at 1:47 pm
G. Williams
That list is good. I think I’ve seen a good chunk of them on teh Internets just today.
Field sense. I didn’t know it was called that. Jesse’s is outstanding, though you’d expect that. Mine is okay when I’m paying attention, but there are days when you could set off a bomb next to me and I wouldn’t notice.