Monthly Archives: May 2010

Understanding Biases

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Xavier

Bias is a com­mon human trait and cog­nit­ive bias affects all of us. Wiki­pe­dia defines ‘cog­nit­ive bias’ as “the human tend­ency to draw incor­rect con­clu­sions in cer­tain cir­cum­stances based on cog­nit­ive factors rather than evid­ence”. Bias is an out­come of … Con­tinue read­ing →

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In defence of Ferrari

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Xavier

These past few days, a video of a Fer­rari engin­eer explain­ing the com­plex­ity of the Fer­rari F10 For­mula 1 racing car has been mak­ing the rounds. Every blog post or dis­cus­sion forum I have come across so far seem to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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