The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational

http://io9.com/5974468/the-most-common-cognitive-biases-that-prevent-you-from-being-rational

The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence. But that doesn’t mean our brains don’t have major limitations. The lowly calculator can do math thousands of times better than we can, and our memories are often less than useless — plus, we’re subject to cognitive biases, those annoying glitches in our thinking that cause us to make questionable decisions and reach erroneous conclusions. Here are a dozen of the most common and pernicious cognitive biases that you need to know about.
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That’s meant to be ten to the power of 16

I don’t see a lot of difference between In Group and Bandwagon. I am presently reading Michael Shermer’s book “The Believing Brain” and read a similar list a couple of days ago. I thought there were three or four that were really just splitting hairs and meant the same thing.

>>The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second, which makes it far more powerful than any computer currently in existence

Bullshit.

The human brain is capable of 1016 processes per second,

wtf does that even mean?

An Intel i7 can do something like 92100000000 instructions per second.

>>wtf does that even mean?

Maybe it’s some sort of cognification bias trap?

we can do many things much better than a computer can, but that doesn’t explain what the thousand processes per second means

Can any of you convert 10^16 to normal numbers? Is it 100,000,000,000,000,000?

1 with 16 zeroes after it

Dropbear said:

we can do many things much better than a computer can, but that doesn’t explain what the thousand processes per second means

I expect is has something to do with how many brain-cells and neurons we have. Not a very meaningful figure if you ask me.

>>That’s meant to be ten to the power of 16

OK, but just watch it fella.

in any case it’s a completely meaningless stat without defining what a ‘process’ is