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Fallacies & Biases
Match up · 8 items · by magister2003
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What’s inside
Match each cognitive bias or logical fallacy with its correct definition.
| Confirmation Bias | Favouring information that reinforces preexisting beliefs while ignoring contradictory evidence. |
| Sunk Cost Fallacy | Continuing an endeavour because of previously invested resources, despite negative future outcomes. |
| Straw Man | Misrepresenting an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack or refute. |
| Dunning-Kruger Effect | Overestimating one's knowledge or competence in a specific domain due to a lack of self-awareness. |
| Ad Hominem | Attacking the character or motives of a speaker rather than engaging with their argument. |
| Availability Heuristic | Judges the likelihood of an event based on how easily examples come to mind. |
| False Dilemma | Presenting only two alternative states as the only possibilities, when more exist. |
| Hindsight Bias | Believing, after an event has occurred, that one predicted or expected it, even if they didn't. |
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