Cognitive Bias
A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to be asked to give a presentation to Ignite Baltimore. At the time, I had just discovered the excellent Overcoming Bias, and I wanted to try my hand at showing some basic cognitive biases. I used the story of cholera outbreaks in London in the 1850s, as told by The Ghost Map, to try and describe a few of the cognitive biases that affect us in our daily lives: