Check Your Bias

The inevitability of unlikely events

Email This BlogThis!Share to X Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest

Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

About Me

Jamie McIntyre: Jamie McIntyre joined the Washington Examiner 2016, as Senior Writer, Defense and National Security. His newsletter, “Jamie McIntyre’s Daily on Defense” goes out each weekday morning to tens of thousands of national security professional and opinion leaders. An internationally-known journalist with more than 40 years experience, McIntyre served as CNN’s Military Affairs and Senior Pentagon Correspondent from 1992-2008, and Al Jazeera America’s National Security correspondent from 2014-2016. McIntyre began his career in radio in 1976 at WTOP, the all-news station in Washington, and also was a newscaster for NPR’s flagship news program "All Things Considered" from 2011-2014. McIntyre holds B.S. In Broadcasting from the University of Florida, and a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Maryland, where he also serves as an adjunct instructor.

View my complete profile

Cognitive Bias

Systematic thinking errors

Conspiratorial Thinking

The mother of all biases
Sept. 11 Truthers/Conspiratorial Thinking

Correlation ≠ Causation

Correlation/Causation

Coincidence

The inevitability of unlikely events

Selection Factors/Results

Confusing selection factors with results

Clustering

We see patterns everywhere

Foresight Illusion

Beware false prophets!

Hindsight

In retrospect it was so obvious.

Intuitive vs Rational Thinking

When your gut speaks...

Overconfidence/Intuition

I'm above average, aren't you?

Nicknames

Why "Crooked Hillary" and "Pocahontas" change our perceptions

Group Think

Everybody else can't be wrong.

Availability Bias

Things that readily come to mind skew our judgment...

Outcome Bias

Never judge a decision by its outcome

Checklist

Ask yourself these questions

Further Reading

Dig deeper, Learn more

Awesome Inc. theme. Powered by Blogger.