Naomi’s Reviews > The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality > Status Update

Ch.7 “next time we have a question let’s hold out for as long as we humanly can before googling the answer…it’s quite nice to just wonder…”

“By the way, humans are the only living species that have chins.” 🤯

Survivorship bias: “propensity to focus on positive outcomes while ignoring any accompanying misfortunes… beckons thinkers to draw incorrect conclusions about ‘why’ something turned out well by fixating too narrowly on the people or objects that made it past a certain benchmark, while overlooking those that didn’t”

zero-sum bias: “the false intuition that another party's gain directly means your loss”