Upgrade Your Mindware

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49 Lectures, over 2.5 hours of video content.

Cognitive biases undermine critical thinking by making us vulnerable to faulty beliefs and bad decisions. Cognitive bias training is motivated by a desire to avoid disasters, improve performance, and promote social justice.

The good news is that there are proven strategies for neutralizing or minimizing the negative effects of cognitive biases. These “debiasing” techniques can be surprisingly simple and effective.

Books and articles on the impact of cognitive biases in business, finance, management, teaching, science, politics, and many other fields, have exploded in popularity in recent years. Many industries have started offering cognitive bias training to management and workers, and the trend is growing.

What You Will Learn in This Course

This course will get you up to speed on what cognitive biases are, why they’re important for critical thinking, why cognitive bias training has become popular, and what sorts of “debiasing” techniques have been shown to be effective in improving the quality of thinking and decision-making.

Cognitive biases discussed include confirmation bias, the anchoring effect, framing effects, bias blindspot, group-think and other social conformity biases, pattern-seeking biases, and more.

Check out the free preview videos in the “Getting Started” section for a full breakdown of the topics covered in the course, and how the course is organized.

Content

Getting Started

PreviewWhat Will I Learn in This Course? (3:50)

What is a Cognitive Bias?

PreviewWhat is a Cognitive Bias? (1:37)

Start”Biased” does NOT mean “Prejudiced” or “Bigoted” (1:11)

StartAn Example: The Gambler’s Fallacy (2:33)

PreviewThe Most Important Discovery of Modern Psychology (3:04)

Cognitive Biases and Their Importance For Critical Thinking

StartA Central Aim of Critical Thinking (1:18)

Preview”Mindware”: Tools for Smart Thinking (7:01)

What is Everything Else?

Everything Else is a product category on Amazon that is meant to be a catch-all for items that don’t fit into any other categories. Over time, as the Amazon catalog has grown and more specific product categories have been added, Everything Else has become less useful and more of a junkyard for cast off and forgotten listings.

Until recently, however.

Why are items listed in Everything Else when they shouldn’t be?

The answer to this is fairly simple. Some sellers are using Everything Else as an opportunity to get around Amazon’s gated category requirements. For example, DVDs with an MSRP of over $25 are now gated  Selling certain products and bran… More and require permission to list. So we’ve seen some sellers create new listings in Everything Else to get around these requirements. We’ve noticed similar “workarounds” for other gated or restricted  Selling certain product categorie… More categories as well.

Amazon doesn’t like this. It just makes the catalog more of a mess than it already is and ends up creating a worse customer experience.