Your Brain is a Liar: Cognitive Pitfalls at Work & How to Fight Them
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Shows the brain misleads by examples and numbers: the Miller-Lyer illusion still makes equal lines look unequal, a custom date-picker estimate jumps from four weeks to four months, and the Edinburgh Parliament project rises from £40m to £431m. Covers sunk-cost behavior (paid ticket vs free ticket), selective-attention gorilla clip (15 passes missed), and cites de-biasing studies that cut bias effects by 29%. Recommends concrete countermeasures: single-tasking, use of historical data, checklists and an outside view.
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