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Do you ever feel like your plan can’t fail? You’re wrong. Optimism bias causes individuals to overestimate the likelihood of positive outcomes and underestimate the likelihood of negative ones, even ...

Human bias, when shaped by values and informed by experience, can be a form of wisdom that protects us from making poor decisions in today’s AI-driven world. Not all bias is bad. Human bias — shaped ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions — they ...