Additive Bias

Brain Lenses

Additive Bias

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Additive Bias

Colin Wright

May 24, 2022

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Brain Lenses

Additive Bias

There's some evidence that, when presented with a problem, we'll tend to favor solutions that involve adding something new over solutions that involve the subtraction of some existing element. One study on this tendency published in 2021 found that we don't necessarily struggle to process solutions that involve subtraction rather than addition, we just t…

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