And so, apparently, are mine
This Wikipedia article about cognitive biases—the common flaws, glitches, blind spots and errors in our interpretation of experience and our decision-making—is truly humbling.
According to the article, a catalog of our mental frailties includes:
--31 decision-making and behavioral biases, such as the bandwagon effect (believing things because others do);
--26 probability and belief biases, including the gambler's fallacy (assuming that because we lost the lottery last week our chances are better this week);
--20 social biases such as the illusion of transparency (overestimating people's ability to know what we're thinking); and
--8 memory errors, including the hindsight bias (otherwise known as the 'I-knew-it-all-along effect').
