RE: A different "personality type" angle

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

Pinkham, Jim [mailto:Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com] 

> 
> I'm not so sure real-world users of our information products 
> will fit tidily into that kind of a box -- convenient and 
> helpful though it might be for us. 
> 
> The list of potential biases and heuristics is long (e.g., 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases). It 
> would be interesting to scrutinize a bit more closely and see 
> if some are more particularly relevant in our contexts than others.  
> 
> Some fascinating ones on the list -- loss aversion, 
> Déformation professionnelle, and the "Texas sharpshooter 
> fallacy," to name but a few.

Thanks for that link. Excellent! I'm book-marking and bronzing!

A few weeks ago, I was reading through long sequences of those 
e-mails that were liberated from the Global Warming co-conspirators. 

I swear that I can see at least two-thirds of the biases from the 
Wikipedia page at work in those exchanges. 

 But then, that might be just my bias at work...


 - Kevin


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