Bias and heuristics are great ways of saving energy by avoiding to think too much when it is necessary to take a decision. It is important to be aware of them to avoid taking systematically the wrong decision.
2. Your Decision
So what?
Consequences
You decide, you are responsible.
Responsibility
There’s no such thing like a free decision..
High stakes
Why is decision making so difficult?
8. Anchoring effect Sunk cost Ambiguity
Confirmation Interpretation
Curse of know-
ledge
Blind spot
Social proofOverconfidence
Halo effect
THE PROBLEM
**Not avaialble for Ninjas
A few human features**
9. Much Better than average
I can manage my car in all circum-
stances.
1
Better than Average
Others are the cause of accidents.2
Worse than average
Look out, I am on the road.3
1. Overconfidence effect
Much worse than average
I am a danger for the planet.3
What kind of driver are you?
12. 3. Interpretation bias
You flip a coin for the 11th
times.
Considering that you got 5 heads and
5 tails before.
A. 10%
B. 50%
C. 90%
What is the probability of getting head?
13. 3. Interpretation bias
You flip a coin for the 11th
times.
Considering that you got 10 head befor
e
What is the probability of getting head?
A. 10%
B. 50%
C. 90%
14. 3. Interpretation bias
You flip a coin for the 11th
times.
Considering that you got 10 head befor
e
What is the probability of getting head?
A. 10%
B. 50%
C. 90%
Considering that you got 5 heads and
5 tails before.
A. 10%
B. 50%
C. 90%
20. Agenda Style
9. Ambiguity effect
30 balls in a bag: Black, White and Red.
10 are Red.
You can bet 10$ on a color.
Which one do you take?
21. Much Better than average
I can manage my car in all circum-
stances.
1
Better than Average
Others are the cause of accidents.2
Worse than average
Look out, I am on the road.3
10. Blind spot
Much worse than average
I am a danger for the planet.3
What kind of driver are you?
22. A few other human features
Accentuation effect
Acquiescence bias
Acto-obersver assymetry
Adaptive bias
Affect heuristic
Ambiguity effect
Anchoring
Apophenia
Attentional bias
Attribute substitution
Attribution bias
Authority bias
Automation bias
Availability heuristic
Bandwagon effect
Barnum effect
Base rate fallacy
Belief bias
Ben Franklin effect
Bias blind spot
Birthday number effect
Bizarreness effect
The century of the self
Certainty effect
Cheerleader effect
Choice-supportive bias
Clustering illusion
Cognitive bias
Cognitive distortion
Congruence bias
Conjunction fallacy
Contrast effect
Cultural bias
Curse of knowledge
Data dredging
Declinism
Denial
Denomination effect
Depressive realism
Disposition effect
Distinction bias
Dunnin-Krueger effect
Duration neglect
Egocentric bias
Emotional reasoning
Empathy gap
End-of-history illusion
End of the day betting effect
Endowment effect
Euphoric recall
Evidence of absence
Exaggeration
Experimenter’s regress
Extension neglect
Extrinsic incentives bias
Fading affect bias
False consensus effect
Familiarity heuristic
Framing
Framing effect
Functional fixedness
Fund attribution error
Generation effect
Halo effect
Hard-easy effect
Hawthorne's effect
Hindsight bias
Horn effect
Hostile attribution bias
Hostile media effect
Hast-hand fallacy
Hyperbolic discounting
Hypo cognition
Identifiable victim effect
IKEA effect
Illusion of asymmetric insight
Illusion of control
Illusion of external agency
Illusion of transparency
Illusion of validity
Illusory correlation
Illusory superiority
Illusory truth effect
Impact bias
Implicit cognition
In-group favoritism
Inequity aversion
Information bias
Insensitivity to sample size
Interpretive bias
Introspection illusion
Irrationality
John Henry effect
Just-world hypothesis
Lady Macbeth effect
Law of the instrument
Less-is-better effect
Locus of control
Loss aversion
Lost in the mall technique
Ludic fallacy
Magical thinking
Mere-exposure effect
Mindset
Minimization
Mistakes were made
Money illusion
Motivated reasoning
Motivated tactician
Naive cynicism
Naive realism
Name-letter effect
Negativity bias
Neglect of probability
Nominative determinism
Normalcy bias
Nudge theory
Omission bias
Optimism bias
Ostrich effect
Othello error
Out-group homogeneity
Outcome bias
Overconfidence effect
Over justification effect
23. Not done yet
Pareidolia
Peak-end rule
Perceptual psychology
Persuasive definition
Physycal attractiveness
Picture superiority effect
Planning fallacy
Polyanna principle
Positive illusions
Positivity effect
Positivity offset
Precision bias
Pseudo-certainty effect
Psychological pricing
Psychological projection
Pygmalion effect
Reactive devaluation
Recall bias
Region beta paradox
Regression fallacy
Response bias
Restraint bias
Rhyme-as-reason effect
Risk compensation
Rozy retrospection
Scarcity heuristic
Scope neglect
Selective omission
Selective perception
Self-deception
Sel-defeating prophecy
Self-fulfilling prophecy
Self-licensing
Self-persuasion
Self-propaganda
Self-reference effect
Self-serving bias
Serial position effect
Shooting bias
Social comparison bias
Social facilitation
Social influence bias
Social perception
Spacing effect
Spiral of silence
Straight and crooked think
Sub-additivity effect
Subject-expectancy effect
Subjective validation
Sunk cost
Surrogation
Survivor bias
Telescoping effect
Thinking fast and slow
Time saving bias
Trait ascription bias
Transposed letter effect
Ultimate attribution error
Von Restorff effect
Watching eye effect
Well travelled road effect
27. THE REAL SOLUTION
Maybe…
01 A good decision system
03 Look for contradiction
05 Work on uncertainties
02 Manage risks
04 Use checklists
06 Keep view on the objective