Appeal to Majority

Deriving general rules from specific examples; the leap from instance to concept.

The brain evolved to reason adaptively, not always truthfully, to reduce the cost of errors.

We solve problems by adding, even when subtracting would be better.

Assuming that if one option is true, another must be false, when both can be true.

Presuming a purposeful actor behind events that may have no actor at all.

What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating.

Performance improves with practice, but gains slow over time.

Notifications calibrated for return visits, not value.

Individual speed gains hide collective quality decline.

Saying or writing the idea back to yourself in your own words to surface gaps before they're public.

Goals become the focus, sometimes at the expense of the underlying purpose.

A federal mandate intended to lower drug costs for the poor became a profit engine for hospitals and contract pharmacies.

Conflict between belligerents with very different resources and tactics.

Resourcing past memories with the state you needed at the time, so old triggers stop firing the old response.

Evaluations are warped by what came immediately before.

Two ways of thinking, both real, both useful, often mis-deployed.

We notice what's present more than what's absent.

Decision time grows with the number of choices.