Twaddle tendency

What it is

Filling one's mind and conversation with trivia, noise and empty talk that crowds out what matters.

Related

• News illusion bias
  News consumption is a main supply of twaddle: noise that feels informative.
• Chauffeur knowledge bias
  Fluent talk without substance feeds both: chatter fills the space where understanding should be.
• Zeigarnik effect bias
  Unfinished items and idle chatter both fill attention with things that are not important.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#23: Twaddle tendency
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#57: Twaddle tendency

References

• Wikipedia: Twaddle tendency en.wikipedia.org
• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment fs.blog
• 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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