An experiment testing one of these concepts at the University of Oregon had students spin a wheel of fortune that would stop at either 10 or 65, and then (*) estimate the percentage of African nations in the UN.
Warning: general answer requiredLearning about these concepts does nothing to raise awareness of them, according to an experiment in which students predicted the results of the NYU "helping experiment," and which was conducted by Nisbett and Borgida. These concepts are mislabelled, and are more like side-effects of an "adaptive toolbox," according to Gerd Gigerenzer. An experiment testing one of these concepts at the University of Oregon had students spin a wheel of fortune that would stop at either 10 or 65, and then (*) estimate the percentage of African nations in the UN. These concepts can be modelled as System 1 failures that slip by System 2. The article that introduced these ideas, and is titled for them, discusses how the representativeness heuristic caused most respondents to fall into the conjunction fallacy when asked a question about the bank teller Linda. They were first postulated by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. For 10 points, name these patterns of faulty judgment, exemplified by how our ideas change due to "hindsight" and "confirmation."
Warning: general answer requiredLearning about these concepts does nothing to raise awareness of them, according to an experiment in which students predicted the results of the NYU "helping experiment," and which was conducted by Nisbett and Borgida.
cognitive biases [accept any more specific biases, like hindsight bias; prompt on "fallacy" and word forms; prompt on "illusion" and word forms; prompt on "heuristics" until mentioned]