Check Your Bias

Common cognitive biases

in software engineering

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Tom DeMarco, Peopleware, 1987

We've been designing complex systems whose active components are variable and highly non-linear components called people.

Alistair Cockburn, essay, 1999

Chris O'Dowd as Roy, IT Crowd s02e03, 2007

1. NEGATIVITY EFFECT

2. OPTIMISM BIAS

3. CONFIRMATION BIAS

4. BANDWAGON EFFECT

5. HINDSIGHT BIAS

Sources

  • Wikipedia, List of Cognitive Biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
     
  • Cornell University, Cognitive Biases in Software Engineering
    https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03869
     
  • Image: brain
    https://pixabay.com/en/artificial-intelligence-ai-robot-2228610/
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