Cognitive Bias

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"A sum of £2,350 is well within everybody's comprehension. Everyone can visualize a bicycle shed. Discussion goes on, therefore, for forty-five minutes, with the possible result of saving some £300."

— Parkinson, C. Northcote event 1958

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"The pattern is: (1) The anointed assert that there is some grave danger or crisis. (2) The anointed propose some course of action to deal with it. (3) Evidence that the proposed course of action has made things worse is either ignored or explained away. (4) The anointed proceed as if the policy were working, blaming any remaining problems on the inadequacy of commitment to the policy."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1995

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"The vision of the anointed is not simply a vision of the world and its functioning in descriptive terms, but is also a vision of themselves and of their place in the world. Self-congratulation is part of that vision, as is a disdain for the benighted masses who do not share it."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1995

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The Vision of the Anointed

person Sowell, Thomas event 1995

The 1995 sequel to *A Conflict of Visions*, focusing specifically on the unconstrained vision as held by a self-appointed intellectual elite, 'the ...

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Wald, Abraham

event 1902 - 1950

Romanian-born mathematician and statistician who pioneered sequential analysis and decision theory, best known for his WWII-era analysis of aircraf...

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Constrained vs Unconstrained Vision

Introduced by Thomas Sowell in A Conflict o...

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Dunning-Kruger Effect

A cognitive bias where people with limited competence or knowledge in a specific domain greatly overestimate their own abilities. The same lack of ...

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Law of Triviality

The tendency of groups to devote disproportionate time and attention to trivial, easily-grasped matters while giving complex, high-stakes decisions...

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Oikophobia

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Survivorship Bias

A logical error that occurs when conclusions are drawn from a data set consisting only of the 'survivors' of some selection process, while overlook...

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