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Learning to Think [Cognitive Bias]

via Zero To Mastery

Overview

Discover how cognitive biases like confirmation, anchoring, and survivorship shape your decisions. This course equips you with tools to think critically, make smarter choices, and gain clarity for success in life and work.
  • Identify confirmation bias and challenge your assumptions
  • Counter anchoring bias to negotiate with confidence
  • Understand survivorship bias and avoid misleading success stories
  • Spot selection bias and broaden your perspective
  • Decode the impact of linear bias on predictions and planning
  • Evaluate news and media with a critical lens
  • Enhance collaboration by recognizing team biases
  • Apply rational strategies to improve everyday decision-making

Syllabus

  •   Introduction
    • Introduction
    • Exercise: Meet Your Classmates and Instructor
  •   How We Think
    • Confirmation Bias - Reading the Newspaper
    • Anchoring Bias - Getting More From Negotiations
    • Linear Bias - We Will Be Obese! Wait, What?
    • Survivorship Bias - Mutual Funds Assessment
    • Selection Bias - Ivy League Effect
    • Mutual Causality Bias - Police and Crime Rate Case Study
    • Gamblers Falacy and Regression to the Mean - The Triumph of Mediocrity
    • Correlation Is Not Causation
    • The Baltimore Stockbroker
    • AI Assistant: A Career at a Crossroads
    • Capstone Project: A Career at a Crossroads
  •   Where To Go From Here?
    • Review This Byte!

Taught by

Diogo Resende

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