The Most Common Cognitive Bias
Veritasium
Why leaders watch it
Demonstrates confirmation bias with a simple puzzle and why leaders should try to disprove their own hypotheses.
A Veritasium video that runs the 2-4-8 rule-guessing puzzle on people to show how they test only examples that confirm their hypothesis. It uses this to illustrate confirmation bias and falsification.
Takeaways
- People test only confirming examples
- Try to falsify your own ideas
- Ask what would prove you wrong
Topics: Decision making & mental models
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