dottedmag comments on If you could push a button to eliminate one cognitive bias, which would you choose? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dottedmag 09 April 2015 01:31:02PM 4 points [-]

Learned helplessness, if that counts as a bias. Anchoring otherwise. Both are hard to overcome even one if aware of them, and decrease quality of judgement badly.

For the whole human race I'd dispense with availability heuristic, which would heal a political system and decision-making in democratic countries a lot (not due to individual politicians having radically better judgement individually, but due to decreased pressure from voters swayed by rare, but spectacular events).