Jay Daverth's Quotes

in Cognitive Biases

Confirmation bias – the tendency to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions.

in Cognitive Biases

Congruence bias – the tendency to test hypotheses exclusively through direct testing, in contrast to tests of possible alternative hypotheses.

in Cognitive Biases

Contrast effect – the enhancement or diminishing of a weight or other measurement when compared with a recently observed contrasting object.

in Cognitive Biases

Denomination effect – the tendency to spend more money when it is denominated in small amounts (e.g. coins) rather than large amounts (e.g. bills).

in Cognitive Biases

Distinction bias – the tendency to view two options as more dissimilar when evaluating them simultaneously than when evaluating them separately.

in Cognitive Biases

Endowment effect – "the fact that people often demand much more to give up an object than they would be willing to pay to acquire it".

in Cognitive Biases

Experimenter's or Expectation bias – the tendency for experimenters to believe, certify, and publish data that agree with their expectations for the outcome of an experiment, and to disbelieve, discard, or downgrade the corresponding weightings for data that appear to conflict with those expectations.

in Cognitive Biases

Extraordinarity bias – the tendency to value an object more than others in the same category as a result of an extraordinarity of that object that does not, in itself, change the value.

Ani DiFranco

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The mainstream is so polluted with lies. Once you are wet it's hard to get dry

William Gibson

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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.