cyberneticlibrary

Identify and mitigate bias

cognitive-biasesskillsetup L164
Tibsfox/gsd-skill-creator
What it does

Identify and mitigate thinking errors in judgment and decision

Best for

Making better decisions in uncertain conditions by accounting for how brains systematically misthink

Inputs
  • · decision context
  • · reasoning chain
  • · evidence used
Outputs
  • · bias diagnosis
  • · debiasing technique
  • · decision with error bounds
Preconditions
  • · decision is important enough to warrant scrutiny
Failure modes
  • · Knowing about bias but not correcting (bias blind spot)
  • · Overcorrecting for one bias while introducing another
Trust signals
  • · Covers anchoring/availability/confirmation/sunk cost/overconfidence/illusion of control
  • · Tversky & Kahneman research grounded
  • · Debiasing techniques per bias