psychology of human misjudgement
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Psychology of Human Misjudgement
Self-Check List
What is this?
• Before making an important decision go over this list to see if you are falling as a victim to any of the fallacies of human misjudgement
• This collection is based on Charles T. Munger’s Psychology of Human Misjudgment essay
• Check out the book: Poor Charlie’s Almanach!
Reward and Punishment
• Who has what incentives?
• Are they aligned?
• What are the positive and negative incentives that are shaping this situation for any of the parties involved?
Liking Loving
• Is there any liking or loving and association that can skew decision making?
• Anything from the past / or association that makes you like an outcome more than an other?
Disliking / Hating
• Is there any disliking or hating and association that can skew decision making?
• Anything from the past / or association that makes you dislike something about an outcome?
Doubt Avoidance
• Do you just quickly want to jump to a conclusion to ease the decision making, save energy and time?
Inconsistency - Avoidance• Do you act in a specific way because you don’t
want to break the image what you have built?
• Are there any actions in your past that solidified your image in front of others that you try to live up to?
• Any past decisions that pointed one way?
• Be brave to change your mind, if new information came along.
Curiosity
• Curiosity increases productivity by bringing extra motivation!
• Are there anything like that on any sides?
• Can you utilize curiosity to make the decision making more effective?
Kantian Fairness
• People should deal with others as they expect others to treat them.
• Are you dealing this way?
Envy Jealousy
• Is there any jealousy in the situation?
Reciprocity
• Is there any pressure to reciprocate what you were given?
Influence from Association
• Are you associating the thing with something that makes you believe something? (eg. high price = high quality; past success = current situation)
• Liking / disliking
• Stereotypes
Pain Avoidance
• Are you closing your eyes to avoid pain?
Excessive Self Regard
• Do you have a too strong liking towards your own product, person, or idea that skews decision making?
• Hiring decisions, ideas
• Are you thinking objectively about yourself and about your possessions?
Overoptimism
• Are you using probability theory to assess the real chances?
• Or you are overoptimistic? or over pessimistic?
Deprival Super Reaction• The loss of the same amount gives more pain,
than the gain of the same amount
• Prospect Theory
• Overreacting to possible losses
• Not acting to prevent losses?
• Not using your energy to gain the same amount?
Social Proof• Doing something because others do it?
• Because other’s approve it?
• Other’s don’t show concern?
• Don’t do something because others don’t do it?
• Recognize and ignore these pressures.
• Hang out with people who give you the values you need.
Comparison Contrast• Anchoring.
• Are you looking at the thing with fresh eyes or are you skewed by a recent thing you can compare to?
• this is not that bad, compared to the previous one. but is it the right ONE?
• It’s not that expensive compared to the previous one or other thing.
Availability - Misweighting
• Are you thinking that something that is easily available to the mind is more important than something that is not?
• Fears, and extremes are very deeply memorized. (media pushes stuff in you)
• Is it actually real? or
Use it or lose it
• Man with a hammer tendency? People tend to see things through their own filters, and solve problems based on what skills they have.
• Using the skills that are important? or losing them
• Use checklists to asses things and don’t forget mental tools.
Drug Misfluence
• Under the effect of drugs?
Senescence
• Old people mentally decay…
• Effect of this on outcome?
Authority
• People who seem authorities shape decisions?
• Listening to them only because they are pro?
• or logical reasons
Twaddle
• People who have no idea say things that can interfere with other people who matter.
• Are you listening to people who matter?
• Are you filtering our opinions successfully that don’t matter?
Reason Respecting
• Tell people who does what where and WHY
• WHY is really important.
• “Please let me in the line, because I have to use the copier!”
• Giving non-sense reason, it still works.
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• Multiple tendencies point the same way:
• Creates a super powerful push and motivation!
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