Saturday, February 2, 2013

Decision-making biases and errors


NAME: NURUL AFIAH BINTI ABDUL KARIM

Tutorial 1

What are decision-making biases and errors?

Research shows that decision makers allow biases and errors to creep into their judgments.  The following highlights the most common distortions.

a)       Overconfidence Bias - we think we know more than we actually do.
b)      Anchoring Bias- the tendency to fixate on the first piece of information we receive.
c)      Confirmation Bias- selectively gathering information that supports our existing views.
d)      Availability Bias- basing judgments on information that is readily available.
e)      Representative Bias- assessing the likelihood of an occurrence by matching it with a preexisting category.
f)       Escalation of Commitment- staying with a decision despite clear evidence that it is wrong.
g)      Randomness error- trying to create meaning out of random events.
h)      Hindsight Bias- to believe we’d have accurately predicted the outcome of an event, after that outcome is actually known.

10 comments:

  1. Well done........ Good work ...... u told clear and short problems

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  2. Satisfactory results and thank you

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  4. well satisfying, would you please also like to explain the :
    ** Sunk Costs Errors
    ** Self-Serving Bias
    ** Framing Bias
    ** Selective Perception Bias

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    1. plz explain that *HEURISTICS BIASES *IMMEDIATE GRADIFICATION BIAS

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  5. wah thank you, lagi ok kalau ada explanation hehehe

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  6. Ink ilawa b koi baises share keen plz

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