Why Parents Cave to Screen Pressure From Their Kids (#127)
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The Importance of Anchoring Bias
I remember so distinctly thinking that this is just the world we lived in. Our kids had to have all this stuff. Why don't we know that we can say no? I'm going to give you some reasons. The first one is culture. This comment is based on the fact that culture is bigger than our individual brains. We go with the flow of the larger group because it's a survival mechanism. And second reason is this thing called anchoring bias, which says the first time you hear something becomes your standard. That's what you tend to measure everything up against. It becomes a bias. Anchoring biases are very hard to change and they're very dangerous in a sense if you
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