Seven deadly shortcuts: cognitive biases and aviation
[credit: Flight Safety Australia, written by By Robert Wilson – Jan 30, 2024] The habits and tricks your brain uses to get you through everyday life become a problem when they run riot in the cockpit. We do no end of feeling and we mistake it for thinking. Mark Twain The Nobel Memorial Prize for economics had an unusual winner in 2002. Daniel Kahneman became the first psychologist to win the world-renowned award, with a version of an idea he had first developed 30 years earlier with Amos Tversky – cognitive bias. If his life’s work can be summed up in a proverb, it would be that we are not as smart as we like to think we are. As well as changing economic thought, Kahneman and Tversky’s insights have unsettling ramifications for aviation safety. In 2 minds A widely quoted but unsourced statistic says the average person makes 35,000 decisions a day.…