Pick one thinking bias to catch this week
Choose one thinking bias, such as attribution bias, and watch for it in your own reasoning for a week before choosing another.
Pourquoi ça marche
Lectica’s web page lists de-biasing among its +7 skills and describes “tackling common cognitive biases, one at a time,” naming attribution bias among the examples. The developers’ idea is that naming a bias and watching for it builds the skill of avoiding it. Whether that reduces the bias is not tested in the sources read.
Comment faire
- Pick one bias you already know, and write one sentence describing it in your own words.
- Each day, notice one judgment about another person or event, and ask whether that bias could explain it.
- Write down an alternative explanation, even if you do not believe it.
- After a week, decide whether to keep the same bias or move to the next one.
Données probantes
The one-bias-at-a-time method is listed on Lectica’s web page as part of its +7 skills. The page does not cite outcome data for it. (anecdotal)
The method is the developers’ suggestion. Cognitive-bias research in general is a separate body of work, not covered by the sources read here.
Sources
Erreur fréquente
Choosing so many biases at once that none of them gets watched for at all.
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