Tag

health

Entries tagged with health - exploring this theme across cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, and more.

8 concepts

Affect Heuristic

When your feelings about something shape what you believe to be true about it.

Using an expert's opinion as evidence when they have no relevant expertise - fame and credentials aren't the same thing.

Arguing that something is good because it's natural, or bad because it's artificial - as though nature is always benign.

Ignoring general statistical information in favour of specific but less reliable details about an individual case.

The refusal to accept an uncomfortable truth, even when the evidence is overwhelming.

The tendency to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones happening to you.

Assuming that because one thing happened after another, the first thing caused the second - confusing sequence with causation.

Harm built into the design of social systems rather than inflicted by any individual act of aggression.