How To Test The Inside of Your Head
summary
Argues that mental models break code and decisions and shows concrete ways to test them: use context questioning and BDD-style scenarios to force missing assumptions, run the IAT on Project Implicit to reveal hidden bias, and treat choices as real options to avoid premature commitments. Gives the Mars face and the 159-list of cognitive biases as examples, cites the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter debunking, and reports hypnotherapy/mantra work that flips a “light sleeper” belief to “deep sleeper.”
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 7:28Scenarios
- 7:59Context Questioning
- 10:36Confirmation Bias
- 19:32Outcome Questioning
- 21:51Assumption Questioning
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