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Hindsight bias is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were. After a stock market crash…
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You walk around highly confident that you fully understand how completely mundane objects operate. However, the exact moment someone asks you to draw a…
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Shared humor is primarily a weapon of exclusion. Creating a hyper-specific joke that only three people understand establishes an instant, impenetrable inner…
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Self-deprecation is a brilliant offensive strategy disguised as a retreat. By aggressively pointing out your own flaws, you completely disarm critics and…
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Basic statistics dictate this is literally impossible, yet here we are. Illusory superiority is a cognitive bias where a person overestimates their own…
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The overconfidence effect proves being loud and wrong is a human specialty. Our internal subjective certainty in our own answers systematically and…
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