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... a major part of the reliable variance of cognitive bias tasks is unique, and implies that a one-factor model of rational behavior is not plausible.
Fulltext: http://sci-hub.org/downloads/86db/10.1016@j.intell.2015.02.008.pdf / https://www.dropbox.com/s/jumlg8hyiwryktx/2015-teovanovic.pdf
That is highly inconvenient. It means that teaching people to deal with cognitive biases is likely not going to have any magic silver bullet.
Also, this is further evidence for the already fairly strong thesis that intelligence and skill at rational thinking are not the same thing.