Is there such a thing as a cognitive bias cognitive bias?
The belief that reading lists of cognitive biases will make you less biased.
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(I say this in the spirit of my mental model fallacy: the belief that reading lists of mental models will make you more effective at life. Spoiler alert: they do not.)
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Not exactly. But I think there's one closer to what you're getting at than this:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_blin
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There definitely is. The bias bias. Aka The Bi-arse. Or Bi-ass for the Americans.
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Daniel Kahneman has repeatedly said for years that he is no more immune to biases and errors than anyone else, even though he thinks about them all day.
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I was deeply seduced by the idea of learning mental models and getting smarter (reading your article put an end to that) but I never believed in learning lists of cognitive biases in order to be less biased.
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