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Comment author: ChristianKl 05 July 2016 04:00:00PM 1 point [-]

In general the literature on congitive biases suggest that most real cognitive biases like the hindsight bias can't simply be overcome by motivation.

By simply calling everything a cognitive bias, it's easy to create the impression that a cognitive bias is simply an error in reasoning like any other error in reasoning.