Choices
Reversible and irreversible choices deserve different amounts of thought
· 3 min read
Gautam Pillai
Reporter, Think Twice Today
Gautam writes about biases, choices, risk, mostly the parts other people skip and reads the small print so you do not have to.
17 articles
Evidence
Why a shelf of famous psychology findings quietly stopped being true
· 4 min read
Habits
A habit is a cue and a routine, and the cue is the part you can move
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Habits
If-then plans are the least glamorous thing that keeps working
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Biases
Confidence tracks how easily an answer arrives, not how often it is right
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Evidence
A single number is a claim about precision it usually cannot support
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Habits
Experience only teaches when the feedback has three properties
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Biases
Ten thousand and a million feel the same when a decision is being made
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Risk
Why the other queue moves faster and your friends have more friends
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Evidence
A natural experiment borrows its randomness from circumstance
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Evidence
A single story is evidence of possibility, not of frequency
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Habits
Spacing and self-testing are the findings that survived
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Biases
The famous curve about incompetence may be mostly a measurement artefact
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Choices
A crude model usually beats an expert combining the same information by feel
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Habits
Expertise transfers between domains far less than the people holding it expect
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Habits
A checklist protects against forgetting, not against being wrong
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Habits
Skills decay at very different rates, and which ones will is predictable
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