Just learned about the #Bader-MeinhofEffect, which relies on selective attention and confirmation bias and makes you believe you're seeing something more often, even if the frequency of it hasn't actually increased.

No doubt I will see it mentioned everywhere now...

#FrequencyIllusion #FrequencyBias #ConfirmationBias

#psychology #CognitiveBiases
https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon-the-effect-you-will-now-notice-everywhere-70595

An interview with Andrew Scheps. Andrew's way of thinking resonates with me on many levels.
There's an undercurrent of weeding out cognitive and perceptual biases, and knowing what cognitive processes are involved. For example, when are you using short term memory, when are you using long term memory, and when you don't need to use your memory at all? And what impact does it have on the reliability of your conclusions?
https://youtu.be/_Kw-eVmGgSw
#musicproduction #cognitivebiases

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On the myth of an unreasonably precise #ReturnPeriod in #CoupledHumanAndNaturalSystems (CHANS) under the #ClimateChange and highly uncertain #TippingPoints "when earth systems suddenly tip into alternate semisteady states" [1]

"common #CognitiveBiases complicate the understanding of #probability [...] For instance, when lacking or considering historical data, people tend to base their estimations of probability on what they have recently experienced" [1]

#PreciselyIncorrect #uncertainty

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#References

[3] van der Sluijs, J.P., 2012. Uncertainty and dissent in climate risk assessment: a post-normal perspective. Nature and Culture 7, 174–195. https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2012.070204

[4] Saltelli, A., Funtowicz, S., 2017. What is science’s crisis really about? Futures 91, 5–11.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.05.010

#DOI #science #research #CognitiveBiases #PostNormalScience #ScienceSelfCorrection #ComputationalModelling

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On similar topics:

https://hostux.social/@dderigo/110131512572533527

#References

[1] Letrud, K., Hernes, S., 2019. Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: a three-in-one case study. PLOS ONE 14, e0222213+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222213

[2] Smaldino, P.E., McElreath, R., 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science 3, 160384+. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384

#DOI #entropy #ScienceSelfCorrection #CognitiveBiases #science #research #PublishOrPerish

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On similar topics:

https://hostux.social/@dderigo/110131512572533527

#References

[1] Letrud, K., Hernes, S., 2019. Affirmative citation bias in scientific myth debunking: A three-in-one case study. PLOS ONE 14, e0222213+. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222213

[2] Smaldino, P.E., McElreath, R., 2016. The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society Open Science 3, 160384+. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160384

#DOI #entropy #ScienceSelfCorrection #CognitiveBiases #science #research #PublishOrPerish

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The #epistemology problem remains how easily our #CognitiveBiases may fool ourselves when we try in good faith to select a promising scientific idea…

Selecting a model (its parameters, covariates, architecture, …) and testing it should be completely different steps, done with different data:

"there is no sense in calculating the probability or the chance that something happens after it happens" (#Feynman: below, two archived versions)

- https://archive.org/details/meaningofitallth0000feyn_d8d3/page/80/mode/2up?q=%22A+lot+of+scientists+don%E2%80%99t+even+appreciate+this.%22&view=theater

- https://archive.org/details/meaningofitallth00feyn/page/80/mode/2up?q=%22A+lot+of+scientists+don%E2%80%99t+even+appreciate+this.%22&view=theater

You've likely encountered elements of this ideology in the wild. Perhaps you've heard about how our #CognitiveBiases make us incapable of deliberating, that "reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments."

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Looking over the long Wikipedia List of Cognitive Biases: when self-righteous sniffs at the follies of your fellow humans are outnumbered by winces of self-recognition ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

#CognitiveBiases #IFeelSeen

Dread Aversion Bias: Dreading yields double the emotional impact of savoring.

(And just to kick us while we're down, a corollary cognitive bias: losses yield double the emotional impact of gains.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

#CognitiveBiases #LifeIsPain

Many important decisions concerning our health, wellness, finances, and careers are affected by hyperbolic discounting. All of these choices require trading off immediate pleasure for your future good.

https://www.nirandfar.com/hyperbolic-discounting-why-you-make-terrible-life-choices/

#MentalHealth #CognitiveBiases

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On #CognitiveBiases in most pressing issues, from statistics to society and policy: [4]

"Converging evidence from the behavioural and brain sciences suggests that the human moral judgement system is not well equipped to identify #ClimateChange — a complex, large-scale and unintentionally caused phenomenon — as an important moral imperative. As climate change fails to generate strong moral intuitions, it does not motivate an urgent need for action in the way that other moral imperatives do"

Just because a threat isn't obvious, doesn't mean it's not there. Understanding cognitive biases can help improve threat research and response. #securityawareness #threatresearch #cognitivebiases #CyberSecurity #cyberawareness #dataprotection

https://redbeardsec.com/the-role-of-cognitive-biases-in-threat-research-and-response/

Here’s What a Former Black NYC Cop Thinks of the Tyre Nichols Case | https://www.theroot.com/here-s-what-a-former-black-nyc-cop-thinks-of-the-tyre-n-1850055814 #lawenforcementintheunitedstates #cognitivebiases #socialissues #kalynwomack #nichols

#Procrastination: The #CognitiveBiases That Enable It—and Why It’s Sometimes Useful

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/procrastination-the-cognitive-biases-that-enable-it-and-why-it-s-sometimes-useful

Listening again to this great #conversation between the #Nobel prize winner #danielKahnemann and #samharris #CognitiveBiases #intuition #expertIntuition #replicability
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93YWtpbmd1cC5saWJzeW4uY29tL3Jzcw/episode/ZDRkZGFmYmRhODMyNDBkOGFhNDY4MjVjZDMzYTMxNWY?ep=14

It me!
#CognitiveBiases #HostileAttributionBias

@DrAHM

Generally, for any psychological (health \ medical) method to be regarded as science, it must be supported by a multitude of research studys. That goes for all psychological practitioners.

If not, whatever those methods are, they can not be called scientific. Until at least, those methods have been empirical shown to have some therapeutic value. Though, the "unusual" quality of psychology is that for certain conditions, placebo & compassion maybe "all" a person requires (as a treatment).

However, when certain cultural social norms & values are generally not questioned, only because they're the norms that cultures have adopted (nurtured), that ignorance may cause diseases & psychological stressors that could have (easily) been avoided.

Air Pollution - How many psychologists, & medical professionals in general, have accommodated the medical evidence regarding the effects of air pollution on the human nervous system? (A science search engine will provide relevant results or visit the WHO website).

The question is - why haven't many health practitioners accommodated this important health information? #CognitiveDissonance

Psychologists are also prone to the same forms of #CognitiveBiases. #ConfirmationBias Because psychologists are human too.

These # are all APA terms.

@icastelaohuerta @academicsunite @academicchatter.gup.pe @edutooters @sociology

#cognitivebiases

UX CORE(UXC) Here you can find 105 hands-on examples of using cognitive biases (thought patterns) in modern software product development. https://keepsimple.io/uxcore #UX #CognitiveBiases The Guide -> https://keepsimple.io/uxcg