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- Skooma714, on 12/11/2007, -7/+45I hope these can be fixed in the next patch. I hate all this legacy bloat.
btw for #3: 9/11 was an inside job etc etc - cruppel, on 12/11/2007, -1/+17I'm pretty sure the only thinking error I committed was expecting the link to load.
- dinostabOMG, on 12/11/2007, -1/+12#9: Comment abuse.
- HoldenCfld, on 12/11/2007, -0/+11One Psych 101 lecture typed up.
- CraigJ, on 12/11/2007, -0/+10I'll bet Spock doesn't have most of these problems...
- Error601, on 12/11/2007, -1/+8Biggest thinking error I see here is generalizing either from bigotry or from ignorance of details. The answers always seem simple when you don't know the whole problem and an attribute of an individual that belongs to some group cannot be extended to apply to other individuals associated with that group.
- nkoszyk, on 12/11/2007, -0/+7Bias seems to be the most prevalent "Thinking Error", and the hardest to overcome.
- rikwakefield, on 12/11/2007, -1/+8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_bia ...
- Kazbaeden, on 12/11/2007, -0/+6Christ, after finishing my finals for Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology, this is the last thing I wanted to see on Digg.
- davidlow, on 12/11/2007, -1/+7#12: Self-referential commenters.
- dmoney22, on 12/11/2007, -0/+5whenever I ingest acid I get BSOD's in my brain.
- davidlow, on 12/11/2007, -1/+5#10: Self-referential comment threads.
- 89992, on 12/11/2007, -1/+5There are A LOT more then 7, there are about 100 or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies - diggonaut, on 12/11/2007, -1/+5I have all of them
- ellecon, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3All 7 are components of an effective advertising or political campaign as well...
- whitej, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3The Bandwagon Effect is seen a lot on Digg.
- justabum, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3Most people have trouble with calculating simple probability (probability bias) As an example, even if a sports team has 80% chance of winning each game, they are a 3-2 underdog to win 4 in a row.
- crazyhorse13, on 12/11/2007, -0/+3so if someone tells you to guess the pattern of 2, 4, 6, you are supposed to say "three ascending numbers"? By that logic you should say "three random numbers".
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:eSSXm8971UkJ: ...
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -1/+3#1 Thinking that a lifehack article is good for anything.
- javip, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2on this website? more like everywhere!
- corkdorkdan, on 12/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly what I was thinking. Let's see, confirmation bias that leads you to discount anything that opposes existing theories, illusion of control that leads you to overestimate the effect of your actions, and thinking you've learned more than you actually have. These are all valid reasons why predicting a chaotic system like global climate is tricky business.
- bobcrotch, on 12/11/2007, -2/+4A lot of political opinions formed on this website are of direct result in thinking errors.
- rikwakefield, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2I would like to agree, but would that make me a sufferer of said effect? lol
- johnnysaucepn, on 12/11/2007, -0/+2The point is that you're supposed to offer up number triples, and you're told whether or not they fit the rule. From that, you're supposed to deduce the rule. The point is that most people would try '8,10,12' or '3,6,9' and confidently proclaim that it's sequential even numbers, or multiples of the first number, without trying something like '7,12,79', which would be true, and prove that their rule was false. The rule could be 'any three numbers', in which case '5,3,19' would be true, and proving the 'ascending numbers' theory false.
- svodka, on 12/11/2007, -2/+3My brain is a machine? Creepy...
- WolverineBlue, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1They're allowed to generate and check any triples of their choice.
- stackered, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1yep i make most of them
- Whackly, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Can't digg when the headline calls me stupid even if the article is good.
- Ramble, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1It's rather unfortunate now because I can see a clear bias in virtually everything, it makes simple conversation complex.
- corkdorkdan, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Why does the fact that third-party servers can't handle the Digg effect make Digg *****?
- l1wulf, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah, well I'm running the beta for next patch... Still pretty buggy.
- Jargonaut06, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Wow, thanks, freshman psychology!
- MaximumPig, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1kripke on wittgenstein ftw
- mrgulabull, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Damnit, beat me to it, and worded better. *Golf clap*
- VictoryGin, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1i haven't RTA yet, but from the discussion so far.. couldn't it just be that "there are some number of things"?
- gkiltz, on 12/12/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately, once you get outside certain "High-value" and technical occupations, the key to economic success today is knowing how to "think stupid"
- davidlow, on 12/12/2007, -0/+114. Stupid thinking errors you probably make.
- waz67, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1But the stupidity of this example is that given only those 3 numbers, about the only rule you can truthfully deduce is that there are three "things".
- gandhirs, on 12/11/2007, -0/+1Fallacies are flawed arguments, not thinking errors.
A more appropriate list is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_bia ... - 1tb0y, on 12/14/2007, -0/+1#8 Visiting lifehack.
- BigW, on 12/11/2007, -4/+4All you 911 "truthers" out there need to take a real serious look at #2 Hindsight Bias.
- charlie55, on 12/11/2007, -6/+6this article would be fantastic if it were called "reasons people believe in human caused global warming."
- davidford, on 12/14/2007, -0/+0Learn about the laser hair removal information, before you go for laser surgery for permanent hair removal.
Visit my new site: http://www.laserlighthairremoval.com. - mrgulabull, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1I was stupid to think that digg wouldn't kill the link.
- hiro, on 12/11/2007, -1/+1Inaccurate, the only mistake I ever made was not realising I was perfect
- JohnFlux, on 12/11/2007, -0/+0To expand - the point is that people only chose tripples which they thought would pass, even though checking with tripples that they thought woudl fail would be equally informative.
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -2/+2So, because you are too stupid to get it to work properly that is Microsoft's fault?
Pleae know until the day you die alone, that your life sucks. No matter what the topic is, all that consumers your worthless brain is "Windows sucks!" That really isn't a life at all. You actually don't lead a life. So why bother s[continuing to take up oxygen? -
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