‘as the scientists note, “people who were aware of their own biases were not better able to overcome them.” This finding wouldn’t surprise Kahneman, who admits in “Thinking, Fast and Slow” that his decades of groundbreaking research have failed to significantly improve his own mental performance. “My intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy”—a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task—“as it was before I made a study of these issues,” he writes. ’
I’m not talking about the bias blind spot. I agree that more educated people are better able to discern biases in their own thoughts and others. In fact that’s exactly what I said, not once but two times.
I’m talking about the ability to control one’s own biases.
I agree that more educated people are better able to discern biases in their own thoughts and others...I’m talking about the ability to control one’s own biases.
Huh? So what are more intelligence—and more educated—people doing, exactly, if not controlling their biases?
Disagree. See comments in http://lesswrong.com/lw/d1u/the_new_yorker_article_on_cognitive_biases/
I’m not talking about the bias blind spot. I agree that more educated people are better able to discern biases in their own thoughts and others. In fact that’s exactly what I said, not once but two times.
I’m talking about the ability to control one’s own biases.
Are you distinguishing between “control one’s own biases” and “adjusting and compensating for one’s own biases”?
Huh? So what are more intelligence—and more educated—people doing, exactly, if not controlling their biases?