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List of cognitive biases

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Many cognitive biases have been demonstrated by research in psychology and behavioral economics .
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/11/dan-gardner-and-philip-tetlock/overcoming-our-aversion-to-acknowledging-our-ignorance/ Overcoming Our Aversion to Acknowledging Our Ignorance

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Caspar Hare is interested in your choices.

How we (should) decide

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/profile-hare-philosophy-1122.html
Cognitive Biases

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/09/11/the-texas-sharpshooter-fallacy/

The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy

The Misconception: You take randomness into account when determining cause and effect.
Learning

Logic

Understanding Data

The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. Is free will an illusion?

Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/is-neuroscience-the-death-of-free-will/
Decision Making

I thought that what was happening to us was remarkable. The statistical evidence of our failure should have shaken our confidence in our judgments of particular candidates, but it did not. It should also have caused us to moderate our predictions, but it did not. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/dont-blink-the-hazards-of-confidence.html?pagewanted=2&src=recg

Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/opinion/29brooks.html

Tools for Thinking

The good folks at Edge.org organized a symposium , and 164 thinkers contributed suggestions. John McWhorter, a linguist at Columbia University, wrote that people should be more aware of path dependence. This refers to the notion that often “something that seems normal or inevitable today began with a choice that made sense at a particular time in the past, but survived despite the eclipse of the justification for that choice.”

The Planning Fallacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/opinion/brooks-the-planning-fallacy.html?ref=magazine Kahneman then asked the most experienced among them how long such work took other curriculum committees.