==== Cognitive Biases ====

"Cognitive biases are tendencies to think in certain ways. Cognitive biases can lead to systematic deviations from a standard of rationality or good judgment, and are often studied in psychology and behavioral economics." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

Various cognitive and social biases can effect our thinking, reasoning and understanding of the parallel present and possible futures. How do we work with assumptions and misunderstanding as givens? 
  * attempt to treat 'facts' as 'assumptions' in [[scenario methods]] 
  * Possibly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias_mitigation]]
  * be aware of related [[wp>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions|common misconceptions]]
  * see also [[affective forecasting]]