Suggests that simplicity may not be as good a bias for our world as commonly believed.

Detect status quo bias in applied ethics by considering parameter changes in both directions. Eliminate status quo bias by thinking of the status quo as a situation that could be reached from an initial position with higher or lower parameter values.

Researchers asked people to write essays in support of a random point of view they did not hold. Months later, when surveyed, the majority held the opinion they wrote about, regardless of the topic.

A slight preference for avoiding disagreement can result in the clumping together of groups with similar biases. Then, when all those you interact with have similar biases, it becomes very unlikely you will change your mind.

"People don't read the news because that it is useful; they read it to show how much they know and how well they can analyze it."

"I don't know" is usually just a screen that people think is defensible and unarguable before they go on to do whatever they feel like, and it's usually the wrong thing because they refused to admit to themselves what their guess was [..].

A situation in which every subsequent actor, based on the observations of others, makes the same choice independent of his/her private signal.

"Here we discuss common patterns of bias and self-deception, statistical and other formal analysis tools, computational and data-gathering aids, and social institutions which may discourage bias and encourage its correction."

Anthropic bias is a term coined by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, as an expression for the bias arising when "your evidence is biased by observation selection effects".