What Cognitive Evolution Teaches Us About Investing

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Uploaded by on Jul 6, 2011

From falling prey to expectations to taking advice from friends, an understanding of our cognitive evolution helps us avoid misperceiving the limits of our knowledge.

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  • This kind of thing should be taught on schools. I really wish I was able to have experimented the ash experiment before knowing it existed. That among other tests would make me able to know more about me than I know now.

    I'm sad |:/ (no I already knew about ash - no need for spoiler alert |:P).

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    Is it correlated with, maybe, the placebo effect? If we could tinker with this effect a bit more...

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  • This topic is so important. People are mostly blind to their tendencies. Things like confirmation bias and group influence are shaping your actions and perceptions and people are unable to see it ! Great video !

  • Group mentality is what separates people form entrepreneurs.

  • so groupthink... yeah.... hmmmm......it's not like the human mind wants to be apart of a community or anything.... no.... not at all.... these biases are from wanting to be apart of a community. It's like the dispersal of responsibility in group situations... use words from the science!

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