Notes

System 1: unconscious, automatic process

System 2: reasoning process

For biases attributable to system 1, the most generic debiasing strategy is to shift processing to the conscious system.

Cognitive bias —- ‘built-in error of the human information-processing system’

Sunk Cost Fallacy

This is consistent with the idea that subjects feel resistant to changing their answers when they put in effort to formulate them.

用户构建一个想法花的时间越久,他们越不能接受这个想法的错的。就会忽视证明这个想法错误的证据。

Comfirmation bias: If the analyst has some prior hypothesis before obtaining the rule learning results, according to the comfirmation bias the analyst will tend to ‘cherry pick’ rules confirming this prior hypothesis and disregard rules that contradict it. Given that some rule learners may output contradicting rules, the analyst may tend to select only the rules confirming to the hypothesis, disregardsing applicable rules with the opposite conclusion, which could otherwise turn out to be more relevant.

如果和他们原先的想法一致,那么觉得有用。如果不一致,就觉得没有用。