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

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Comment author: passive_fist 11 April 2015 09:39:42AM 2 points [-]

Not sure if this is a bias or not, but "magical thinking" -- the mode of thinking that implicitly ascribes a hidden 'essence' to events or objects. Different manifestations of this are: karma, homeopathy, "handmade is better than factory made", and so on.