7 Biases That Everyone Has (And How They F*ck Up Your Life)

Tackling our bandwagon biases is important because it frees us up to be more objective and rational about our decisions and it really could have saved me from the third Harry Potter movie. I know, the directors were keen to make bank from the franchise but f*ck your anthropomorphic werewolf. No. Whichever bunch of people thought that was a good idea need to start looking for other kinds of work.

Engaging in bandwagon bias and believing in things without or despite supporting scientific evidence just because a large group of people feel or parrot the same idea, isn't a rational method of decision making and it doesn't give any credibility to the ideas you believe in. You haven't evaluated any assertions made, you've just gone with the flow.

This mode of thinking can lead to people not vaccinating their children, it may lead to hate crimes stemming from learned bigotry and terrible sequels that don’t really exist called “Alien 3” and “Alien Resurrection”.