What’s on the Cognitive Biases poster
A 7-row table: Bias · What happens.
The biases with the widest practical consequences.
- Confirmation — Evidence that agrees is sought and believed more
- Anchoring — The first number seen distorts every later estimate
- Availability — Vivid or recent examples feel more probable
- Sunk cost — Continuing because of what is already spent
- Hindsight — Believing it was predictable, afterwards
- Dunning-Kruger — Low skill makes it hard to recognise low skill
- Fundamental attribution — Others' actions blamed on character, yours on circumstance
The most reliable correction is external: ask someone who disagrees, and write predictions down before the outcome.
Questions about the Cognitive Biases poster
- What’s on the Cognitive Biases poster?
- A 7-row table: Bias · What happens. The biases with the widest practical consequences. Confirmation — Evidence that agrees is sought and believed more; Anchoring — The first number seen distorts every later estimate; Availability — Vivid or recent examples feel more probable; Sunk cost — Continuing because of what is already spent; Hindsight — Believing it was predictable, afterwards; Dunning-Kruger — Low skill makes it hard to recognise low skill; Fundamental attribution — Others' actions blamed on character, yours on circumstance. The most reliable correction is external: ask someone who disagrees, and write predictions down before the outcome.
- Who is the Cognitive Biases poster for?
- Cognitive Biases belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning sleep & mind can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Cognitive Biases poster?
- You cannot debias by knowing. You can build habits that catch the error afterwards. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Cognitive Biases belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Cognitive Biases?
- Attention, Breathing Techniques and Burnout sit alongside Cognitive Biases in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AttentionBreathing TechniquesBurnout
- Is the Cognitive Biases poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Cognitive Biases downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Cognitive Biases poster print at?
- Cognitive Biases is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Cognitive Biases loses nothing.Printing guide
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