Hi. I’m glad you appear to have gained a lot from my quick reply, but for what it’s worth I did not intend my reply as an admonishment.
I think the core of what I read as your comment is probably still valid. Namely, that if I misidentified problems as biases when almost all of the failures are due to either a) noise/error or b) incompetence unrelated to decision quality (eg mental health, insufficient technical skills, we aren’t hardworking enough), then the bias identification isn’t true or useful. Likewise, debiasing is somewhere between neutral to worse than useless if the problem was never bias to begin with.
Hi. I’m glad you appear to have gained a lot from my quick reply, but for what it’s worth I did not intend my reply as an admonishment.
I think the core of what I read as your comment is probably still valid. Namely, that if I misidentified problems as biases when almost all of the failures are due to either a) noise/error or b) incompetence unrelated to decision quality (eg mental health, insufficient technical skills, we aren’t hardworking enough), then the bias identification isn’t true or useful. Likewise, debiasing is somewhere between neutral to worse than useless if the problem was never bias to begin with.