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The Art of Thinking Clearly

  • Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • Survivorship Bias
    • Swimmer's Body Illusion
    • Clustering Illusion
    • Social Proof
    • Sunk Cost Fallacy
    • Reciprocity
    • Confirmation Bias
    • Confirmation Bias (Part 2)
    • Authority Bias
    • Contrast Effect
    • Availabiity Bias
    • It'll-Get-Worse-Before-It-Gets-Better Fallacy
    • Story Bias
    • Hindsight Bias
    • Overconfidence effect
    • Chauffeur Knowledge
    • Illusion of Control
    • Incentive Super-Response Tendency
    • Regression to Mean
    • Outcome Bias
    • The Paradox of Choice
    • Liking Bias
    • Endowment Effect
    • Coincidence
    • Groupthink
    • Neglect of Probability
    • Scarcity Error
    • Base-Rate Neglect
    • Gambler's Fallacy
    • The Anchor
    • Induction
    • Loss Aversion
    • Social Loafing
    • Exponential Growth
    • Winner's Curse
    • Fundamental Attribution Error
    • False Causality
    • Halo Effect
    • Alternative Paths
    • Forecast Illusion
    • Conjunction Fallacy
    • Framing
    • Action Bias
    • Omission Bias
    • Self-Serving Bias
    • Hedonic Treadmill
    • Self-selection Bias
    • Association Bias
    • Beginners's Luck
    • Cognitive Dissonance
    • Hyperbolic Discounting
    • Because Justification
    • Decision Fatigue
    • Contagion Bias
    • The Problem with Averages
    • Crowding
    • Twaddle Tendency
    • Will Rogers Phenomenon
    • Information Bias
    • Effort Justification
    • The Law of Small Numbers
    • Expectations
    • Simple Logic
    • Forer Effect
    • Volunteer's Folly
    • Affect Heuristic
    • Introspection Illusion
    • Inability to Close Doors
    • Neomania
    • Sleeper effect
    • Alternative Blindness
    • Social Comparison Bias
    • Primacy and Recency Effects
    • Not-Invented-Here Syndrome
    • The Black Swan
    • Domain Dependence
    • False Consensus Effect
    • Falsification of History
    • In-group Out-group bias
    • Ambiguity Aversion
    • Default Effect
    • Fear of Regret
    • Salience Effect
    • House-Money Effect
    • Procrastination
    • Envy
    • Personification
    • Illusion of Attention
    • Strategic Misrepresentation
    • Overthinking
    • Planning Fallacy
    • Deformation Professionelle Fallacy
    • Zeignark Effect
    • Illusion of Skill
    • Feature-positive effect
    • Cherry Picking
    • Fallacy of the single cause
    • Intention to treat errors
    • News Illusion

Regression to mean

On this page

  • Overview
  • The dubious efficacy of doctors, consultants and psychotherapists
  • See also

The dubious efficacy of doctors, consultants and psychotherapists

Massage

Back to normal

Extreme performances are interspersed with less extreme ones

To do with natural variations in performances

Ignoring regression to mean can have destructive consequences.

See also

  • Problem with averages
  • Contrast Effect
  • It’ll Get Worse before It Gets Better Fallacy
  • Coincidence
  • Gambler’s Fallacy

On this page

  • Overview
  • The dubious efficacy of doctors, consultants and psychotherapists
  • See also