Déformation professionnelle

What it is

Seeing every problem through the lens of one's own profession or favourite tool.

Related

• Confirmation bias bias
  Seeing every problem through one lens leads us to notice the evidence that fits it.
• Incentive super-response tendency bias
  Incentives shape what each profession sees as the problem and the solution.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#92: Deformation professionnelle

References

• Wikipedia: Déformation professionnelle en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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