{"id":892,"date":"2009-01-15T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/01\/15\/learned-today-overcoming-bias-show-off-bias\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T10:53:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T15:53:14","slug":"learned-today-overcoming-bias-show-off-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/learned-today-overcoming-bias-show-off-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Learned Today! &#8211;Overcoming Bias: Show-Off Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Must be mindful of this. One must always keep his eyes on the ball. Win first show off later!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Show-Off Bias<br \/>\nIt seems to me that self-identified smart people are biased towards complex or counter-intuitive answers to problems.  The reason is simple: complex or counter-intuitive answers allow one to show off intelligence.  So let\u2019s call this bias \u201cshow off bias.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.overcomingbias.com\/2008\/12\/showoff-bias.html\">Overcoming Bias: Show-Off Bias<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Must be mindful of this. One must always keep his eyes on the ball. Win first show off later! Show-Off Bias It seems to me that self-identified smart people are biased towards complex or counter-intuitive answers to problems. The reason is simple: complex or counter-intuitive answers allow one to show off intelligence. So let\u2019s call &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/15\/learned-today-overcoming-bias-show-off-bias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learned Today! &#8211;Overcoming Bias: Show-Off Bias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learned-today"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}