Video: cognitive bias and tossing coins

Using jars of sweets and tossing coins, Andrew Sharman explains how probability works in relation to accident – the mental shortcuts you take in your brain.

Do low base rates fool you into a false sense of security? Heuristics make it easy for us to make quick decisions without deep thought – but simultaenously they may lie behind some of the errors we make at work in terms of decision making.

Andrew Sharman explains:

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