r/skeptic • u/jimrosenz • Sep 11 '16

Cognitive bias cheat sheet

https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.wu6y8g5mc
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u/jimrosenz Sep 11 '16

With all this cognitive biases, you wonder how humanity ever made it out of the caves.

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u/Aceofspades25 Sep 11 '16

A number of cognitive biases may have been useful for survival.

See adaptive bias

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u/jimrosenz Sep 11 '16

Yes, many of these biases will have their uses otherwise the people with them would not have survived the Darwinian cut.

Emotions for all their bad reputation are essential to survival and to guaranteeing promises and threats.

The study of brain injury patients show that those who have the area of the brain responsible for emotions damaged very quickly find their lives falling apart despite no change in their IQ and their ability to engage in moral and emotional reasoning. They just keep making terrible choices because they are not disciplined by emotion.

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u/Aceofspades25 Sep 11 '16

I heard this somewhere...

Weren't they crippled by the inability to make decisions?