Six of the most common intuitive errors:
- inattentional blindness (failing to see things that are in plain sight);
- the belief that our memories are more reliable than they are;
- the tendency to think someone is competent if they are confident;
- the illusion of knowledge (we know much less than we think);
- the assumption that things that occur together must be causally related (think MMR vaccine and autism);
- and the increasingly popular notion that cognitive exercises make us smarter (in fact, physical exercise has a much stronger effect).
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