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What cognitive biases feel like from the inside
Eric Morgan3y30

There is a significant amount to like here, and certainly this ought to serve as a very good first line kind of check for the possibility your strongly entangled in some of these biases with certain decisions. 

But, I'm not sure (and maybe it's not intended) to address situations where it's harder to tell. 

Take confirmation bias, in the case where you're actually right it feels almost identical to what is written in the table. Which means the table cannot reliably be useful to help decide the question of: 

"Am I really correct here, or am I just cheating myself with different standards of evidence depending on whether or not it matches my intuition/preference"

I'm not sure what to do about that, outside of rigorously trying to falsify yourself, in an honest manner, by aggressively pitting the opposing set of ideas against your own. 

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