Brain Fart: Discover Your Flawed Logic, Failures in Common Sense and Intuition, and Irrational Behavior - How to Think Less Stupid

by Peter Hollins

The first cognitive bias is that humans tend to prefer simplicity. In fact, we trust something is more accurate the simpler it is. By contrast, we also distrust things the more complex they are, or the more hoops we seem to have to jump through.