Adaptive bias is the idea that the human brain evolved to reason adaptively rather than truthfully or even rationally, and that cognitive bias itself may have evolved as a mechanism for reducing the overall cost of cognitive errors, as distinct from simply reducing the number of such errors, when a person must make a decision under conditions of uncertainty.
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Core ClaimThe brain evolved to reason adaptively rather than truthfully or rationally, and cognitive bias may have evolved to reduce the overall cost of cognitive errors under uncertainty. 1 Classification
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Adaptive bias is the idea that the human brain has evolved to reason adaptively, rather than truthfully or even rationally, and that cognitive bias may have evolved as a mechanism to reduce the overall cost of cognitive errors as opposed to merely reducing the number of cognitive errors, when faced with making a decision under conditions of uncertainty.
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Adaptive bias is the idea that the human brain evolved to reason adaptively rather than truthfully or even rationally, and that cognitive bias itself may have evolved as a mechanism for reducing the overall cost of cognitive errors, as distinct from simply reducing the number of such errors, when a person must make a decision under conditions of uncertainty.
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Wikipedia article 'Adaptive bias' is filed under Category:Cognitive biases.
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