I love lists, and so every day this week I’ll give you one to chew on. To start us off is this won­der­ful list of cog­ni­tive biases.

To try and become a bet­ter thinker I’m study­ing cog­ni­tive biases in order to (attempt to) over­come them. This in itself is attempt­ing to over­come the bias blind spot.

A cog­ni­tive bias is any of a wide range of observer effects […] includ­ing very basic sta­tis­ti­cal, social attri­bu­tion, and mem­ory errors that are com­mon to all human beings.

A favourite: the clus­ter­ing illu­sion — the ten­dency to see pat­terns where actu­ally none exist.

Also: list of mem­ory biases.