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Thursday, 29 December 2011

Bamboozled By Your Bias Blind Spot

No UFOs Here

It has come to our attention that there are amongst you those who are quite happy to accept that behavioral biases affect the way that other investors act but refuse to agree that you, yourself are so afflicted. Of course, most UFO abductees reckon everyone else is a faker, so we shouldn’t be too surprised at this.

There’s a term for this wilful foolishness: it’s called the bias blind spot. We recognise it in others, so why don’t we see it in ourselves?