Cognitive Bias

[scheherazade]

Apparently we all have it, largely because we are surrounded by far too much information to deal with and therefore we need some means of reducing the overload to a workable system. I found this image, titled Cognitive Bias Codex to be quite interesting, at least to me.

So let's not be shy...consider sharing some of the categories that you recognize in yourself, given that it is a bias if you see it in others.  

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For myself, I notice when something has changed, more often than not. Change is the only constant that I am familiar with so perhaps logical that it is one of my biases.

[C C]

My chief or overarching bias may be that I assign pejorative overtones and negative evaluations to some of the sensory content / stimuli and thoughts that I distinguish in the course of extrospection and introspection. Due to those falling out of systematic preferences on my part which deviate from a decreed "norm".

All in the course of doing my part in helping to support slash justify that there is a sub-classification of discerned patterns and events in cognition that are the result of selective tendencies which should be labeled "biases". That these affairs deserve such special attention and focus, which thereby segregate them from the rest of the items that are discriminated and identified in conscious experience (the latter items supposedly escaping the pejorative overtones and negative evaluations).

[Secular Sanity]

I don't have any cognitive biases...

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

[elte]

I think I probably have or have had all of them at one time or another.  They can be good or bad, depending in the situation.

[scheherazade]

I know that for myself, I have a bias toward negativity in other people and try to recognize in myself when I am likely to be perceived as negative by others. Given that I am usually quite moderate and supporting in my conduct around others, I have found it interesting and useful at times to utilize a small amount of specific negativity to express my displeasure with an operational situation in conversation with persons whom I know from experience cannot help but move it up the chain.

In such manner I have instigated several changes for smoother operations without being the direct bearer of bad news. Not sure what kind of a bias that would be...
By the same token, when something is better dealt with directly, I have no problem in wearing the figurative black hat and stepping into the fray.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KfbAFgD2mLo

[C C]

I think I probably have or have had all of them at one time or another.  They can be good or bad, depending in the situation.

That's probably my situation, too, at the particular level of them. They're too numerous to be constantly aware of and it would be an insane compromising of everyday life and innate behavioral momentum to be devoted to a phobia of the majority of them, of striving for avoidance in all contexts. Analogous to a highly regulated robot evaluating every decision and action it made in terms of fallacies, logical correctness and the whole invented terrain of rational apparatus / furniture.

[Leigha]

Is cognitive bias considered irrational? If so, then I never exhibit this. lol My bias is always rational.

[scheherazade]

Cognitive bias can be rational or irrational depending upon what path your mind takes in arriving at the destination.

We tend to view faith based (evidence lacking) biases to be irrational while fact based bias is deemed to be rational.

Both are biased toward one outcome or understanding over the other so it is perhaps small surprise that these two viewpoints remain in conflict.

For some, it is possible to hold both biases in mind simultaneously.

Go figure...