BIASES

Abstract

Biases many times are misinterpreted as wrong decision-making when dealing with tough decisions and uncertainties. But these many times are just that, misinterpretations of people that had made bad choices previously, in the wrong circumstances and therefore have made the subject the way it is right now, like a wrong way of seeing things, but what if we think of a bias as an option to be passionate and thoughtful about a specific subject?

Therefore, the subject can become a different way, maybe even a better way of making decisions from a unique perspective such as a passionate person who knows the subject and want to improve in some way and then the decisions made will be done properly, this way of thinking can be used as a brand-new tool.

But passion can lead to much unpredictability and therefore it is safe to say that, if these are not well managed, it can be led to unsafe decision-making. So, to properly use biases it is necessary to also use other tools to contra-rest the “ugly side”, even though this can lead to difficult and bad decisions, also, cannot be ignored the potential ideas that came from passion, knowledge and many times there are ignored just because decisions are not filtered enough.

Finally, this can be achieved with many other tools , such as robust decisions , decision matrices, choosing advantages and so on , all these tools can maintain harmony and the "down to earth" decision-making so errors can be avoided at maximum.  

Bias history

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