Surrogation
The process by which a measure or metric comes to replace the underlying objective it is intended to represent, leading to distorted decision-making.
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“strategy distortion”
Courtesy Bias
The tendency for individuals to give positive responses or feedback out of politeness, regardless of their true feelings.
Survivorship Bias
A cognitive bias that occurs when conclusions are drawn from a non-representative sample, focusing only on successful cases and ignoring failures.
Subadditivity Effect
A cognitive bias where the total probability assigned to a set of events is less than the sum of the probabilities assigned to each event individually.
Hindsight Bias
A cognitive bias where people perceive past events as having been more predictable than they actually were.