This is another one that will challenge and sometimes make your brain hurt.

Over the last several decades, new research has changed science’s picture of how we succeed or fail to seek the truth.  The heuristics and biases program, in cognitive psychology, has exposed dozens of major flaws in human reasoning.  Microeconomics, through the power of statistics, has shown that many facets of society don’t work the way we thought.
Overcoming Bias aims to bring the implications home.

This blog will bring up and discuss a lot of research and concepts around objectivity and bias and how people think and analyse things. It is very often quite challenging and surprising

I have been a bit disappointed lately as they seem to have fallen into a quantum trap, caught in the idea of observer-effect and a lot of the other paradoxes, and somehow thinking it might be relevant to bias. As a physicist that one annoys me (especially since there have been at least 10 posts around this, i think someone read a book recently) but I am willing to cut them some slack and see whether there are some insights at the end somewhere, who knows.

Because for about a year now they certainly have made me think, plus given me an insight into the mathematics of the social sciences (always good to learn some other fields’ maths - and half of them are my maths streched to fit). It has made me pay attention to certain biases and patterns, and given me some very interesting statistics to use, too. So it has earned some slack.

Check the site, http://www.overcomingbias.com/ Enjoy!

Some great examples from the past few months (picking at random from some i kept)

the affect heuristic
the leader gender bias (planning to write about that one one day)
the conformity experiment (why i think being a bit of a non conformist has helped me be smart )
overvaluing

It is worth going back a few months in this, even when you disagree with the points made or the validity of discussing some of the topics (some get quite abstract) I am sure it might make you more aware of things and more careful in your thinking.