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#BarnumEffect 🧵🧵🧵
The Barnum effect refers to the tendency for individuals to accept vague or general statements as accurate descriptions of themselves. Image
🔮 It is named after P.T. Barnum, a showman known for making generalized statements that people believed were highly specific to them.
🔮 The Barnum effect is commonly observed in personality assessments, horoscopes, and fortune-telling scenarios.
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Was reading upon #Biases & learnt a lot. Thought of sharing a few pointers .
Simply put Bias is a disproportionate weight in favour of or against any idea/thing in all aspects of life.
Few types of Biases ( out of the many) with not so random images. :)
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2/16
The #DunningKruger effect now is fairly well known , wherein people with limited knowledge overestimate their competence, whilst the actually knowledgeable question themselves often .
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge".
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3/16
*#SelfServingBias*
A very interesting bias wherein we credit our successes to purely ourselves, but when things go awry we cite luck & external forces .
Rings any bells?
Basically a defence mechanism to protect our self esteem & eventually from personal responsibility.
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