Overcoming Your Biases

Master the advanced metacognitive tools that researchers and elite decision-makers use to detect and counteract bias in real time. Through scenarios involving forecasting, strategic planning, personal finance, and intellectual discourse, you will build a practical debiasing toolkit and confront the sobering reality that knowing about bias is not the same as being immune to it.

advanced20 minCognitive Biases

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A venture capital firm is evaluating a $5 million investment in a biotech startup. The founding team is charismatic, the technology is novel, and the pitch deck projects $100 million in revenue within four years. The lead partner is enthusiastic: 'This could be our fund's defining deal.' Before the final vote, an associate suggests conducting a pre-mortem. What does this involve, and which biases does it most directly combat?