A journey through our cognitive biases

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WE make errors every day. We may soetimes say "how" could I ever had done that error? This is slide deck of the ALE2013 talk about what are our cognitive biases that lead us to wrong decisions.

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A journey through our

cognitive biasesALE2013

Oana Juncu

A little bio-story

“I make no sense”

The Instinct of Survival

Brain is a brilliant lazy machine

« Reason fools us more often than nature »

The most popular decision tool

Heuristics =

The test

A B

50% Unknown

The availability bias

Attribution bias

Representatives bias

Conjunction bias

Confirmation bias

E 6 7 J

Retrospective bias

The familiarity bias

What we know is safe. What we don’t know is

not.

Status Quo bias

? ? ?

A disease will kill 6000 people if we do nothing. We can pick a choice among 2 plans:

Plan A : 2000 people will be saved

Plan B : all people can be saved , but there is a chance out of three that all people 6000 will be saved , and 2 chances out of three that all people die

A choice…

Loss Aversion Bias

Endowment effect

If we know our cognitive biases, we’ll do less errors

ReferencesO « Descartes Error », Antonio

DamasioO «  »Judgment under Uncertainity 

: Heuristic and Biases » ,Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky

O « Petite Philosophie de nos erreurs quotidiennes » , Luc de Brabandère

O « The Public Speaker Confessions » , Scott Berkun

Thank YOU!

Oana JUNCU@ojuncuwww.coemerge.comhttp://oanasagile.blogspot.comoanajuncu@coemerge.com+33 6 65 02 87 16