| Cognitive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects
identified in cognitive science, including very basic statistical
and memory errors that are common to all human beings (first identified by Amos
Tversky and Daniel Kahneman) and drastically skew the reliability
of anecdotal and legal evidence. They also significantly affect
the scientific method which is deliberately designed to minimize
such bias from any one observer.
Bias arises from various life, loyalty and local risk and attention concerns that are difficult to separate or codify. Tversky
and Kahneman claim that they are at least partially the result of problem-solving using heuristics, including the availability
heuristic and the representativeness
heuristic.
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