Am I the only one to find knowledge of cognitive biases to be of no use whatsoever?
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Someone should write a framework for putting cognitive biases to practice.
Kinda like this
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There’s a reason it’s not useful, actually. Decision science consists of 3 pts: descriptive models (how people normally think), normative models (how they should think/make optimal decisions), prescriptive models (how to get from descriptive to normative). Biases are descriptive.
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To actually get at the useful stuff, one would have to dig into the prescriptive models in the literature. Cognitive biases are simply descriptions — not actionable.