katydee comments on Another Real World Example of Cognitive Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 02 February 2012 01:40:25AM *  2 points [-]

According to Dr Rudin, the attitude that cognitive bias can somehow be willed away, by education, training or good intentions, is still pervasive.

I don't think "good intentions" and "willing things away" should be grouped with education and training in this statement. The former two strategies are not particularly effective (does anyone intend to be biased?), but the latter two-- while certainly nontrivial to implement-- can, as you point out, work well.