A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of irrationality. Cognitive biases can lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate thinking, illogical interpretation, and poor decisions. Because cognitive biases affect how people understand and even perceive reality, they are difficult to avoid, even once a person becomes aware of them. Virtually everyone’s thinking is degraded by cognitive biases.
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