Tag

policy

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

7 concepts

Mental Model

Chesterton's Fence 

Before you remove something, make sure you understand why it was put there in the first place.

 Cognitive Bias

Omission Bias 

The tendency to judge harmful actions as worse than equally harmful inactions, even when doing nothing causes more damage.

 Political Theory

Regulatory Capture 

When the agencies meant to regulate an industry end up serving its interests instead.

 Mental Model

Second-Order Thinking 

Thinking beyond the immediate consequences of a decision to consider what happens next - and what happens after that.

 Cognitive Bias

Status Quo Bias 

The preference for the current state of affairs, where any change is perceived as a loss.

 Systems Thinking

Unintended Consequences 

Actions in complex systems produce outcomes nobody planned for - sometimes worse than the original problem.

 Psychological Phenomenon

Woozle Effect 

When a claim gets cited so often that people assume it's been proven - even though the evidence behind it is thin or nonexistent.