Cognitive Bias
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A systematic pattern of distorted judgment or reasoning that can shape decisions without people noticing. In tech culture, cognitive bias is often discussed in relation to hiring, product design, debugging, and decision-making under uncertainty.
In plain English: A predictable mental bias that distorts judgment.
Example: "The retro surfaced a cognitive bias problem: people kept overweighting the most recent outage and ignoring months of stable performance."