
The Skeptics Guide #879 - May 14 2022
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
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The Omission Bias
There is an action bias, and there is an omission bias. People tend to be more afraid of active harm than passive harm. We can have both biases at the same time - they come out at different moments. But that that's why i got that damned thing wrong in scienceof fiction last week. Ya. You thatswel some people said, i got that wrong ecause i was thinking of the omission bias,. Ave they named it or not, they were saying that at thought that's what you were saying.
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