Cognitive bias
"Cognitive bias" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Cognitive biases can be adaptive when they speed decision-making.
When the government realised that a new virus was circulating, Chinese officials didn’t advise hand washing, a better cough etiquette and disposing of tissues. They quarantined entire cities and shut down the economy. As one former secretary of state for health in England put it to me, our scientists suffered from a “cognitive bias” towards the milder threat of influenza.