Cognitive Biases: What They Are, Why They're Important

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As critical thinkers, it's important to understand how we OUGHT to reason. This is what we learn when we study logic, argumentation and other normative theories of reasoning. But it's equally important to understand how we IN FACT reason, how our minds ACTUALLY work.

Every critical thinker should be familiar with the concept of a "cognitive bias". In this episode of The Critical Thinker podcast I give an overview of what cognitive biases are and why they're important. In the next episode I'll look at some examples of cognitive biases in action.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cognitive biases
• biases
• heuristics
• Kahneman
• Tversky
• critical thinking
• anchoring effect

[PhilosophyFreak]

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[Theophage]

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[Neueregel]

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[Forkroute]

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[terbospeed]

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[Dathinkingman]

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[thesparitan]

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[LikeItDeep]

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[Forkroute]

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