Having good notation is generally good. Whether or not a notation is good depends on how you want to use it. It seems to be a CBT exercise to write out thoughts and identify cognitive distortions.
It seems to me like it would be valuable to be able to write out the thought before being able to decide whether or not a bias is involved. It might make sense to have a notation in which you can more easily add the information about whether or not a cognitive distortion is involved later then stating the thought by adding a graphical feature.
If you do it a lot I could also imagine that you might want to have symbols for the commons biases instead of writing them out.
More practically I’m not sure that it’s good to focus on biases. When writing down belief networks it feels like belief reporting and asking a lot of “why X” seems like it goes deeper for me.
You are a step ahead of my latest post with the CBT comment. Good points on being able to write out thought chains and add distortion notation later and symbols for common biases. Have you seen examples of belief network diagrams used in this way?
I have read about CBT but haven’t done the exercise about spotting cognitive distortions.
I have created larger diagrams in the belief reporting context. My knowledge about the technique comes from a single two hour workshop at the LessWrong community weekend and not directly from Leverage. I’m not sure what kind of notation the Leverage folks use to layout belief networks.
Having good notation is generally good. Whether or not a notation is good depends on how you want to use it. It seems to be a CBT exercise to write out thoughts and identify cognitive distortions.
It seems to me like it would be valuable to be able to write out the thought before being able to decide whether or not a bias is involved. It might make sense to have a notation in which you can more easily add the information about whether or not a cognitive distortion is involved later then stating the thought by adding a graphical feature.
If you do it a lot I could also imagine that you might want to have symbols for the commons biases instead of writing them out.
More practically I’m not sure that it’s good to focus on biases. When writing down belief networks it feels like belief reporting and asking a lot of “why X” seems like it goes deeper for me.
You are a step ahead of my latest post with the CBT comment. Good points on being able to write out thought chains and add distortion notation later and symbols for common biases. Have you seen examples of belief network diagrams used in this way?
I have read about CBT but haven’t done the exercise about spotting cognitive distortions.
I have created larger diagrams in the belief reporting context. My knowledge about the technique comes from a single two hour workshop at the LessWrong community weekend and not directly from Leverage. I’m not sure what kind of notation the Leverage folks use to layout belief networks.