Eight cognitive biases social media takes advantage of
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Eight cognitive biases social media takes advantage of
Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It
Filippo Menczerscientificamerican.com
Almost all biases are time-saving heuristics. For important decisions, discard memory and identity, and focus on the problem.
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
“follow the herd” mentality is very powerful.
Maura Ginty • Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions
There is a growing risk that you will only be presented with information that someone else thinks is what you want to see, read or hear. Accentuating your biases and prejudices. Increasing groupthink. Narrowing your frame of reference.
JP Rangaswami • On firehoses and filters: Part 1
He categories different biases:
- Availability bias - the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant examples come to mind
- Confirmation bias - confirming what you expect to find by selectively accepting or ignoring information
- Affective bias - the tendency to make decisions based on what we wish were true