Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decision making. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2025

The cost of regret

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One of the most tragicomic moments in my life happened at my twentieth high school reunion. I was painfully shy when I was young.  I brought...
Saturday, June 11, 2022

Locked into error

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Back in 2011, author Kathryn Schulz did a phenomenal TED Talk called " On Being Wrong ."  She looks at how easy it is to slip into...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

Siding with the tribe

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Springboarding off yesterday's post, about our unfortunate tendency to believe false claims if we hear them repeated often enough, today...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

The cost of regret

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"But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have ...
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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Social media and bad decisions

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In his famous dialogue Phaedrus,  Plato puts the following words in Socrates's mouth: If men learn [writing], it will implant forgetfu...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Mice, rats, and sunk costs

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One of the most difficult-to-fight biases in human nature is the sunk-cost fallacy . The idea is the more time, effort, and/or money we...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Fear talk and bad decisions

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I've always been curious about why politicians spend so much time trying to make their constituencies afraid. A scared person, you wou...
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Gordon Bonnet
I'm a fiction author and blogger who lives in the frozen wilds of Upstate New York. I am also an online writing coach/consultant -- ask if you want more details!
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