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The best place to start to learn about biases is [[The Objectivity Assumption]] (see presentation above), which is the common held belief that one's self is absent of thought bias. Once understood, you will start to see how the various '''[[heuristics]], [[Thought Paradoxes|paradoxes]] or [[Logical fallacies|fallacies]]''' that make up the human mind forge our perception and are protected form change by the ego's difficulty in being proven wrong ([[cognitive dissonance]]). This is often because the ego works to maintain and protect an individual’s self-image. Recognizing one's own cognitive biases might be seen as a threat to one’s competence or rationality, making it difficult to acknowledge them. | The best place to start to learn about biases is [[The Objectivity Assumption]] (see presentation above), which is the common held belief that one's self is absent of thought bias. Once understood, you will start to see how the various '''[[heuristics]], [[Thought Paradoxes|paradoxes]] or [[Logical fallacies|fallacies]]''' that make up the human mind forge our perception and are protected form change by the ego's difficulty in being proven wrong ([[cognitive dissonance]]). This is often because the ego works to maintain and protect an individual’s self-image. Recognizing one's own cognitive biases might be seen as a threat to one’s competence or rationality, making it difficult to acknowledge them. | ||
=== | == Types of Cognitive Bias == | ||
There are a wide range of cognitive biases which can be classified by how they are driven, for instance egoic bias are caused by the strong pull of the ego not wanting to be proved wrong. Whereas social biases occur when the pull of the group influence how we think. | |||
=== Egoic Cognitive Biases === | |||
These are cognitive biases which are all based around maintaining the ego's inflated sense of self: | These are cognitive biases which are all based around maintaining the ego's inflated sense of self: | ||