Decision Hygiene

Avoiding Small Mistakes (and big ones)

Applying lessons from real life to test prep, and vice versa

Mar 21, 2024 •

Loss Aversion: Time Is Money

Why students struggle with time management, and why tutors struggle to help them with it.

Jan 31, 2024 •

Hunter-Gatherers, Wedding Planners, and Gamblers

The virtues of expected value

Nov 29, 2023 •

Confirmation Bias

When System 2 goes rogue

Nov 14, 2023 •

Feeling right isn't the same as being right

Oct 5, 2023 •

How Mistakes Happen

Decision Hygiene #6: The "internal feeling of completion"

Sep 13, 2023 •

Availability Bias

Why students hate redoing missed questions

Aug 18, 2023 •

The Halo Effect

Decision Hygiene, part four: Matt Damon, handsome candidates, and jumping answers

Aug 3, 2023 •

Our Most Common Cognitive Error?

Decision Hygiene #3: Substitution

Jul 20, 2023 •

System One and System Two

Decision Hygiene: Two Modes Of Thought

May 9, 2023 •

Decision Hygiene

Cognitive Biases and Test Prep Strategy

May 3, 2023 •

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