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Comment author: Coscott 25 September 2014 02:43:01PM 1 point [-]

Biased Pandemic is about learning about cognitive biases. Cognitive biases are different from logical fallacies.

Comment author: MrMind 26 September 2014 07:49:50AM 0 points [-]

Cognitive biases are different from logical fallacies.

Yes, in the sense that cognitive bias are a subset of logical fallacies systematically applied by our brain. So I maybe can refine my answer: is it worth to teach about logical fallacies? Yes, especially when they become cognitive bias. A fun way to do this is Biased Pandemics.

Comment author: ChristianKl 27 September 2014 10:41:05AM 0 points [-]

Many cognitive biases don't have much to do with logic as humans generally don't make decisions via logic.