Understanding Cognitive Bias: Irrational Judgments
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Understanding Cognitive Bias: Irrational Judgments

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Cognitive biases cause systematic thinking errors, leading to irrational decisions and misjudgments in everyday life.

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the "outside view" that statistician Roger Bainbridge documented
+the "outside view" that Kahneman and Tversky articulated as the
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By Gerd Gigerenzen's estimates
+By Gerd Gigerenzer's estimates

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Two corrections: the outside view concept is attributed to Kahneman and Tversky, not an unverified statistician 'Roger Bainbridge'. Separately, corrected the misspelled researcher name to Gerd Gigerenzer.

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