# Cognitive Bias Chart

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 3, 2021, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043 "2021-09-03T12:50:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043/21 "2021-09-17T17:34:26Z")

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I don’t read the chart as saying cognitive biases have a direction It’s just that they tried to roughly categorize them. Categorization can help our brains handle larger ideas. It’s why we like hierarchies. They don’t have to be perfect.

Reading the [zoomed in version](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/all-188-cognitive-biases.html), it appears that they used a list of the cognitive biases that have Wikipedia articles. It appears they were just trying to add some extra structure to the Wikipedia article.

> **[List of cognitive biases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases)**
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> Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.
> Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research, there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them. Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases, which provides a classification of biases b...

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**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cognitive-bias-chart/950043/22 "2021-09-17T18:00:32Z")

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I was going to say the same thing. There’s no direction, they’ve just grouped related biases into categories and subcategories. It looks nice, but it’s way too big for my tiny laptop screen.

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