I got an amazing amount of use out of Order of Magnitude Physics. It can get you in the habit of estimating everything in terms of numbers. I’ve found that relentlessly calculating estimates greatly reduces the number of biased intuitive judgments I make. A good class will include a lot of interaction and out-loud thinking about the assumptions your estimates are based on. Also or as an alternative, a high-level engineering design course can provide many of the same experiences within the context of a particular domain. (Aerospace/architecture/transportation/economic systems can all provide good design problems for this type of thinking—oddly, I haven’t yet seen a computer science design problem example that works as well.)
Also, I’ll second recommendations for just about any psychology course. And anywhere you see a course cross-listed between psychology and economics you’ll have a good chance of learning about human bias.
I got an amazing amount of use out of Order of Magnitude Physics. It can get you in the habit of estimating everything in terms of numbers. I’ve found that relentlessly calculating estimates greatly reduces the number of biased intuitive judgments I make. A good class will include a lot of interaction and out-loud thinking about the assumptions your estimates are based on. Also or as an alternative, a high-level engineering design course can provide many of the same experiences within the context of a particular domain. (Aerospace/architecture/transportation/economic systems can all provide good design problems for this type of thinking—oddly, I haven’t yet seen a computer science design problem example that works as well.)
Also, I’ll second recommendations for just about any psychology course. And anywhere you see a course cross-listed between psychology and economics you’ll have a good chance of learning about human bias.