In all the conference rooms at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) they have a poster listing common types of Bias:
Wishful thinking
- “hope is not a management tool”
Group think
- “I hate conflict”
Status Quo Bias
- Ever heard “we’ve not had a problem before”
Overconfidence Bias
- “We’ve always been successful in the past”
Currency Bias
- “We remember recent events and forget history”
Confirming Evidence Bias
- “I’ve read smoking doesn’t cause cancer”
Anchoring Bias
- The first information we receive gets more weight
Sunk Cost Bias
- “But look at the money we’ve already spent”
Just something to keep in mind.
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You can't manage what you don't measure.
GTS, check out "How to measure anything" by Douglas Hubbard. Look for a review here, coming soon.
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