What biases do you need to work on?

 I had to look up what bias really meant before I answer this...I'm familiar with the word but I wanted to be clear with my answer...

plural noun: biases

1. 1.

   prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be 

   unfair.

   "There was evidence of bias against foreign applicants."

I don't really have too many biases...at least not that I'm aware of. I'm sure I do, I'm human lol. Let's Chat GPT this and see what biases exist...I'll highlight which ever ones apply to me 🤷

Certainly! There are numerous cognitive biases that can influence human decision-making and perception. Here are some common biases:

1. **Confirmation Bias: ** The tendency to favor information that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or values.

2. **Availability Bias: ** Placing greater importance on information that is readily available, rather than relying on a more comprehensive and accurate assessment. 

3. **Anchoring Bias: ** Relying too heavily on the first piece of information encountered (the "anchor") when making decisions.

4. **Hindsight Bias: ** Believing, after an event has occurred, that one would have predicted or expected the outcome.

5. **Overconfidence Bias: ** Overestimating one's own abilities or the accuracy of one's beliefs and predictions.

6. **Loss Aversion: ** The tendency to prefer avoiding losses rather than acquiring equivalent gains.

This one right HERE?! This is something I absolutely need to work on. I hate knowing that I'm selling myself short out of fear of being judged by others or failing. That feeling is very overwhelming and crippling and I need to let that shit go fr...

7. **Groupthink: ** The desire for harmony or conformity within a group, leading to irrational or dysfunctional decision-making.

Yes, this is another one for me 😭Although I'm married, this bias has prevented me from planning a wedding because I want everyone to be there and be happy but yall know how family can be...err body don't like or forgive err body, or not everyone can co-exist respectfully. 

8. **Self-Serving Bias: ** The tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

9. **Sunk Cost Fallacy: ** The inclination to continue investing in a project or decision based on the amount of resources already invested, rather than on the current or future value.

10. **Recency Bias: ** Placing more importance on recent events or information and overlooking historical data.

11. **Fundamental Attribution Error: ** Overemphasizing personality-based explanations for behavior while underemphasizing the role of situational factors.

12. **Dunning-Kruger Effect: ** The cognitive bias of people with low ability at a task overestimating their ability.

13. **Cognitive Dissonance: ** The discomfort experienced when holding conflicting beliefs or attitudes, leading to a psychological need to resolve the inconsistency.

14. **Optimism Bias: ** The tendency to believe that one is less likely to experience negative events and more likely to experience positive events than others.

15. **Neglect of Probability: ** Ignoring relevant statistical information when making decisions involving probability.

Well, I hope you learned something from this, because I have. I had no idea any of these biases were "things". I had no idea that some of my feelings and thoughts were considered biases. Very interesting actually. I'm curious if any of these top 15 biases resonate with you and how so?