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Explaining the world one sketch at a time

Sneaky cognitive biases: hindsight bias, loss aversion, recency bias

Hindsight bias, Loss aversion and Recency bias. Parents in particular frustratingly seem to suffer from hindsight bias where everything becomes blindingly obvious as soon as a child has dropped the glass/fallen over/bumped into someone. Though ‘careful’ is not so useful after the fact.
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Design for a Glance, a Look and a Read

You can design almost any information with this in mind (even an email for example). Probably not ideal for a novel, but if you’re competing for attention, as most things are, it’s not bad to keep in mind.
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Chindogu: unuseless inventions

Unuseless inventions. Invented by the Japanese. Worth a quick chindogu search.
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The Anchoring bias

Anchoring

Hard to avoid and easy to manipulate.
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How long to nap

Via The Wall Street Journal: The Perfect Nap and @jessmnhey.
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Common distributions: normal, skewed, pareto

Normal (the weight of apples, measurement errors, IQ…), skewed (Number of children in a household, age at retirement…) and Pareto (80/20 rules, long-tails, size of meteorites).
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