Scientific Definition
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Plain-English Definition
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Feynman Explanation
The most biased person in the room is the one explaining other people's biases.
Core Principle
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
Mechanisms
We see bias in others more easily than in ourselves.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
The most biased person in the room is the one explaining other people's biases.
Examples
- Leaders trained on bias still convinced they're personally immune.
- Bias programs that perform awareness without changing decisions.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Process beats awareness. Build the decision architecture, not just the training.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Process beats awareness. Build the decision architecture, not just the training.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
Low ability paired with high confidence.
Cold-state decisions don't survive hot-state moments.
Believing we influence outcomes that are largely random.
Confidence in predictions outruns their actual accuracy.
Most of us think we're above average. Statistically, we can't be.
Avoiding information that might be unpleasant.
Confidence routinely outruns calibration.
We assume our current state will persist into the future.
Overestimating our ability to control future impulses.
Wins are ours; losses are circumstantial.
We assume others notice us more than they do.
A story repeats until it becomes obviously true.