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COGNITIVE_BIAS_PENTAMETER

                                             February 05, 2019


    Material to be read on the air,
    for the 2019 "Day of Noise".         http://obsidianrook.com/noise/index.html

       Playing with the names
       of cognitive biases.

iambic pentameter:

        Illicit transference Surrogation
        Functional fixedness Automation                 I came up with 42
        Observer-expectancy Anchoring                   of them, which is
        Mood-congruent memory Cheerleader               three times 14.
        Less-is-better Clustering illusion
        Form function attribution Reactance                 4+4+4+2 = 14
        Change Exaggerated expectation
        Defensive attribution Zero-sum                      sonnet length
        Recency illusion Confirmation
        Subjective validation Zeigarnik
        Reminiscence bump Status quo Restraint
        Selective perception Dunning-Kruger
        Survivorship Hostile attribution
        Verbatim Hyperbolic discounting
        Blind spot Framing Frequency illusion
        Projection Processing difficulty
        von Restorff Ambiguity Outcome
        Conjunction System justification
        Ben Franklin Third-person Fading affect
        Availability cascade Spotlight
        Default Social desirability
        Ingroup Lag  Ultimate attribution
        Impact Sexual underperception
        Mood-congruent memory Focusing
        Suggestibility Declinism
        Attentional False consensus Belief
        Endowment Leveling and sharpening
        Gambler's Fallacy Risk compensation
        Part-list cueing Just-world hypothesis
        Overconfidence Negativity
        Outgroup homogeneity Base rate
        Rosy retrospection Weber-Fechner
        Pseudocertainty Suffix Distinction
        Authority Anthropomorphism
        Regressive Consistency Normalcy
        Self-relevance Extrinsic incentives
        Childhood amnesia Bandwagon Hard-easy
        Neglect of probability Unit
        List-length Irrational escalation
        Humor Illusory correlation
        Time-saving Actor-observer Congruence
        Semmelweis reflex Tachypsychia

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trochaic pentameter:
                                                          identified 25 of
        Illusion of asymmetric insight                    them.
        Insensitivity to sample size
        Loss aversion Levels-of-processing                   5x5 ?
        Illusory superiority
        Mere exposure Subadditivity                        (25-1)/4 = 6
        Moral credential Telescoping
        Illusion of external agency                          6 quatrains
        Naïve cynicism Trait ascription                      plus 1 line
        Halo Hindsight Hot-hand Source confusion             left over.
        False consensus Continued influence
        Fundamental attribution Google
        Post-purchase rationalization Cross-race
        Shared information Modality
        Social comparison Pessimism
        Rhyme as reason Testing   Empathy gap
        Illusion of control Choice-supportive
        Optimism Suffix Generation
        Egocentric Decoy Dread aversion
        Disposition Curse of knowledge Contrast
        Parkinson's triviality Backfire
        Picture superiority Context
        Sexual overperception Planning
        Travis Syndrome Ostrich
        Illusion of validity Spacing
        Forer Reactive devaluation



With fill words as tags:

 trochaic:
            conservative belief revision BLUES
            Identifiable victim BALLAD
            Illusion of transparency SHUFFLE
            Self-serving Zero-risk Instrument WALTZ

  iambic:
            Availability heuristic RAG
            The Cryptomnesia Peak-end rule BEBOP
            The False memory Money illusion QUARTET


 other ideas:

     use fragments of the one-line explantations

     invent new ones, parodies of the known biases

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