Seeing the Error of Your Ways

Reconociendo nuestros errores de percepción

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The ProPublica Nerds

Nerd Blog

The Brain + Graphics

Our Mind's Everyday Quirks

Las peculiaridades de nuestra mente

What The Judge Ate for Breakfast

PNAS

What the Malofiej Judges Ate for Breakfast

We Hate to Wait

The Average Investor

Richard Bernstein Advisors

The Weight of Authority

Psychological Science

The Warmth of Personality

Science

The Whiff that Keeps on Giving

A Tasty Sight

The New Yorker

Frame of Mind

Words of Difference

Survivorship Bias • Swimmer’s Body Illusion • Clustering Illusion • Social Proof • Sunk Cost Fallacy • Reciprocity • Confirmation Bias • Authority Bias • Contrast Effect • Availability Bias • The It’ll-Get-Worse-Before-It • Story Bias • Hindsight Bias • Overconfidence Eff • Chauffeur Knowledge • Illusion of Control • Incentive Super-Response Tendency • Regression to the Mean • Outcome Bias • Paradox of Choice • Liking Bias • Endowment Effect • Coincidence • Groupthink • Neglect of Probability • Scarcity Error • Base-Rate Neglect • Gambler’s Fallacy • The Anchor • Induction • Loss Aversion • Social Loafing • Exponential Growth • Winner’s Curse • Fundamental Attribution Error • False Causality • Halo Effect • Alternative Paths • Forecast Illusion • Conjunction Fallacy • Framing • Action Bias • Omission Bias • Self-Serving Bias • Hedonic Treadmill • Self-Selection Bias • Association Bias • Beginner’s Luck • Cognitive Dissonance • Hyperbolic Discounting • “Because” Justification • Decision Fatigue • Contagion Bias • The Problem with Averages • Motivation Crowding • Twaddle Tendency • Will Rogers Phenomenon • Information Bias • Effort Justification • The Law of Small Numbers • Expectations • Simple Logic • Forer Effect • Volunteer’s Folly • Affect Heuristic • Introspection Illusion • Inability to Close Doors • Neomania • Sleeper Effect • Alternative Blindness • Social Comparison Bias • Primacy and Recency Effects • Not-Invented-Here Syndrome • The Black Swan • Domain Dependence • False-Consensus Effect • Falsification of History • In-Group Out-Group Bias • Ambiguity Aversion • Default Effect • Fear of Regret • Salience Effect • House-Money Effect • Procrastination • Envy • Personification • Illusion of Attention • Strategic Misrepresentation • Overthinking • Planning Fallacy • Deformation Professionnelle • Zeigarnik Effect • Illusion of Skill • Feature-Positive Effect • Cherry Picking • Fallacy of the Single Cause • Intention-to-Treat Error • News Illusion

Visuals Fool Our Minds, Too

Las imágenes nos engañan también

Judging a Face

Association for Psychological Science

Swayed by the Brain

Bars vs Lines

“The more male a person is, the taller he/she is.”

Bars and Lines: A Study of Graphic Communication

Optical Illusions Show Us Our Errors

Ilusiones ópticas pueden mostrarnos nuestros errores

Same Colors Look Different

Straight Lines Look Curved

Ikea Nightmares

Lines Don't Look the Same Length

Rectangles Don't Look the Same Size

But they are!!

This Dancer Spins Both Ways

An Impossible Chocolate Bar

Graphics Can Reveal Our Blind Spots

Los gráficos pueden revelar nuestros prejuicios

Our Rose (or Blue) Colored Glasses

New York Times

The Ease of Reading

Dsxyliea

Our Terrible-ness at Big Numbers

The Size of a Population

Al Jazeera America

The Extent of the Damage

South China Morning Post

The Number of Detainees

Guardian

“Rhetorical Scroll”

The Number of Foreclosed Houses

New York Times

The Depth of the Ocean

The Washington Post

The Distance Between Planets

Josh Worth

The Number of Deaths

New York Times

“You-do-it” Graphics Help Us Realize

“Inténtelo-usted” gráficos ayudarnos a realizar

#youdoit graphics?

You realize you're terrible at trading stocks.

Bloomberg Businessweek

You realize your guesses are not (always) correct.

New York Times

You realize just how difficult it is to cut the prison population.

The Marshall Project

You realize that you're never going to win the lottery.

Los Angeles Times

You realize how hard it is to live on minimum wage.

New York Times

You realize how small biases turn into systemic problems

Nicky Case

Nicky Case

Survivorship Bias • Swimmer’s Body Illusion • Clustering Illusion • Social Proof • Sunk Cost Fallacy • Reciprocity • Confirmation Bias • Authority Bias • Contrast Effect • Availability Bias • The It’ll-Get-Worse-Before-It • Story Bias • Hindsight Bias • Overconfidence Eff • Chauffeur Knowledge • Illusion of Control • Incentive Super-Response Tendency • Regression to the Mean • Outcome Bias • Paradox of Choice • Liking Bias • Endowment Effect • Coincidence • Groupthink • Neglect of Probability • Scarcity Error • Base-Rate Neglect • Gambler’s Fallacy • The Anchor • Induction • Loss Aversion • Social Loafing • Exponential Growth • Winner’s Curse • Fundamental Attribution Error • False Causality • Halo Effect • Alternative Paths • Forecast Illusion • Conjunction Fallacy • Framing • Action Bias • Omission Bias • Self-Serving Bias • Hedonic Treadmill • Self-Selection Bias • Association Bias • Beginner’s Luck • Cognitive Dissonance • Hyperbolic Discounting

Thanks!

¡Gracias!

“Because” Justification • Decision Fatigue • Contagion Bias • The Problem with Averages • Motivation Crowding • Twaddle Tendency • Will Rogers Phenomenon • Information Bias • Effort Justification • The Law of Small Numbers • Expectations • Simple Logic • Forer Effect • Volunteer’s Folly • Affect Heuristic • Introspection Illusion • Inability to Close Doors • Neomania • Sleeper Effect • Alternative Blindness • Social Comparison Bias • Primacy and Recency Effects • Not-Invented-Here Syndrome • The Black Swan • Domain Dependence • False-Consensus Effect • Falsification of History • In-Group Out-Group Bias • Ambiguity Aversion • Default Effect • Fear of Regret • Salience Effect • House-Money Effect • Procrastination • Envy • Personification • Illusion of Attention • Strategic Misrepresentation • Overthinking • Planning Fallacy • Deformation Professionnelle • Zeigarnik Effect • Illusion of Skill • Feature-Positive Effect • Cherry Picking • Fallacy of the Single Cause • Intention-to-Treat Error • News Illusion