{"id":65771,"date":"2021-07-12T06:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=65771"},"modified":"2021-07-14T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T06:34:09","slug":"bias-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/bias-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"bias bias"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>De neiging om biases te spotten zelfs als er geen biases zijn, om psychologie sinds Kahneman en Tversky voornamelijk te beschouwen als de studie van irrationaliteit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!---p>Behavioral economics began with the intention of eliminating the<br>psychological blind spot in rational choice theory and ended up<br>portraying psychology as the study of irrationality. In its portrayal,<br>people have systematic cognitive biases that are not only as persistent as visual illusions but also costly in real life\u2014meaning that<br>governmental paternalism is called upon to steer people with the<br>help of \u201cnudges.\u201d These biases have since attained the status of<br>truisms. In contrast, I show that such a view of human nature is<br>tainted by a \u201cbias bias,\u201d the tendency to spot biases even when there<br>are none. This may occur by failing to notice when small sample<br>statistics differ from large sample statistics, mistaking people\u2019s random error for systematic error, or confusing intelligent inferences<br>with logical errors. Unknown to most economists, much of psychological research reveals a different portrayal, where people appear<br>to have largely fine-tuned intuitions about chance, frequency, and<br>framing. A systematic review of the literature shows little evidence<br>that the alleged biases are potentially costly in terms of less health,<br>wealth, or happiness. Getting rid of the bias bias is a precondition<br>for psychology to play a positive role in economics.<\/p--->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>De neiging om biases te spotten zelfs als er geen biases zijn, om psychologie sinds Kahneman en Tversky voornamelijk te beschouwen als de studie van irrationaliteit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[945],"tags":[4211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65771"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65784,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65771\/revisions\/65784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}