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Quantified Self and effect on psychology

Risk tolerance Knowing my average expenses helped me make riskier decisions. Recency bias I can compare today with last year (or further back! Sunk cost fallacy I know what the sunk costs are, and they're often not as I think. large که 2015-06-056 Availability heuristic Hawthorne effect I can evaluate my days. and weeks, even the parts I don't remember. Planning fallacy I have estimates and actual measurements. Placebo effect Not a bad thing. If performance changes under observation, that's good. Try diff. experiments. Theory of Mind Q I can imagine other people and my past/future selves as reasonable people who may disagree with me. Confirmation bias I can find contradictory evidence

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