One of the most pernicious aspects of having a human brain is that it can fool itself in myriad ways. This little song (typos forgiven in the captions) provides a nice roundup of cognitive bias — its types, its meaning, and its problems.
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Thanks, Kent, my son is taking the AP Psych test this week and I have to be grateful to this teacher who dramatizes the subject so musically! Mark
Posted by Mark Lipowicz | May 8, 2010, 4:05 pm