ONE OF SEVEN WAYS OF SEEING
Recognize the shortcuts that quietly shape your judgment.
WYSIATI describes the tendency to build a coherent story from the information at hand without considering what is missing. A convincing story can then produce confidence out of proportion to the amount or quality of the evidence.
Erikson describes a Yellow pattern in which a person wants to talk, loses interest in others’ speech, and later insists the information was never shared. He interprets this as a listening problem rather than a memory problem.
Zero-risk bias is the tendency to prefer eliminating a small risk entirely over reducing a larger risk by a greater amount, often leading to worse overall outcomes because people value certainty even when it is counterproductive.