Cognitive bias is distortion in the way humans perceive reality

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WordPress' Matt Mullenweg on the media's penchant for twisting a story to match a preconceived notion.

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Paul Gillin posts results of a survey of bloggers.

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Link from Mark Evans' site - a groupoing of other blogs to try.

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John Wagner can't understand why people spend their time influencing behaviour with music, voice, images, etc., then express shock when someone suggests that music might affect how people behave.

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Now that the lawsuit has been settled, you might want to update the blogpost, so people don't have to wade through months worth of comments before finding out that the company did the righ tthing and

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A community site sponsored by Vancity, which encourages people in the Lower Mainland and Victoria to post their aspirations, and see who else wants to make the same thing happen. Link via Darren Baref

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Steve Crescenzo's humourous new "services" offered to get people out of meetings that otherwise would waste their time.

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"A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality. Here are the 26 most studied and widely accepted cognitive biases."

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"You might own a choice ... But your beliefs are not about you; beliefs are about the world. Your beliefs should be your best available estimate of the way things are; anything else is a lie.&quo

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"The Father of beatnik, William Burroughs, devised a technique by which one's writing may be cleansed of its cultural and semantic bias." The Huge Entity has been at the Bug Powder Dust, met

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"A hard-hitting report on climate change published by the British government on Monday has no basis in science or economics, OPEC's Secretary-General Mohammed Barkindo said on Tuesday." Well

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"Gøtzsche says that some industry-funded reviews were also biased in their methods, as they considered only studies held in the company's own database." You'll forgive me for not acting too

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Emerald City's Cheryl Morgan has her say about the 'biased reviewing' controversy that assailed the SF blogosphere over the last month.

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Unfortunately, none of this surprises me...

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Pittsburgh newspapers just like other media may be subject to a bit of bias.Is there any real neutrality in journalism? Probably not. This doesn't have to be a problem.

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