The Royal Society of Account Planning’s Visual Study Guide Of Cognitive Biases

• martinpoulter
  As one of the authors of this presentation, I strongly recommend that people do NOT rely on it. It's merely the current Wikipedia article - which is pretty poor - turned into a slide show with some images. The article will be good some day, but its present form is so incomplete as to be misleading.
  
  Not all of the things mentioned are cognitive biases, not all the biases on the list arose from the heurisitics and biases research programme. The numbers are just arbitrary. There aren't "42 decision-making biases": there are just 42 things correctly or incorrectly in the Wikipedia list at a particular time.
  
  This is a fascinating topic, and you get an infinitely better introduction to it from a paperback book: Stuart Sutherland's "Irrationality", Cordelia Fine's "A Mind of Its Own", Scott Plous' "The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making", Thomas Kida's "Don't Believe Everything You Think" and there are lots more that would serve the purpose.
  
  Again, I say this as one of the authors of the article, and I admit I haven't done a good job with it so far.
• martinpoulter
  To clarify, it's from two WP articles: Cognitive bias and List of cognitive biases. Under the terms of the licence, Erik can copy the material, but has to give credit. The people blogging and commenting about it seem unaware that the text is already on Wikipedia.
  
  Also, there's no such thing as the "Royal Society of Account Planning". By using it in the title of the blog post, you might give people the impression that it's more than just some guy's blog.
• efern211
  As the authors of the wiki article have expressed here, it seems the Cognitive Bias wiki still needs a lot of work. The document has being taken down for the time being until that can be corrected.
  
  Would love for a bunch of Professors in the field to chip in and make the Wiki spotless. There seems to be tremendous interest in this topic. If you're an expert in cognitive science, pitch in to help save the wiki! :D
  
  Eric

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