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If you have a brain, you're biased

I recently bought a new vehicle. While driving it home I was amazed to see how many vehicles of the same type were on the road.

This was the ‘selective observation bias’ working on me: suddenly noticing something I'd never noticed before. This often occurs due to a recent decision we've made, and is an example of a cognitive bias.

COGNITIVE BIASES

These biases are hard-wired into our brains by evolution, unlike

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