{"id":237,"date":"2015-04-25T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-25T23:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2015-04-25T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T23:38:26","slug":"lovallo-on-confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/lovallo-on-confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovallo on Confirmation Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Confirmation bias Is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they&#8217;re collecting the data, and they don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re cooking the books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dan Lovallo, interview with Dan Heath, quoted in <i>Decisive<\/i>, Chip and Dan Heath, page 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confirmation bias Is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they&#8217;re collecting the data, and they don&#8217;t realize they&#8217;re cooking the books. Dan Lovallo, interview with Dan Heath, quoted in Decisive, Chip and Dan Heath, page 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70,16],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-executive","tag-confirmation-bias","tag-critical-thinking","post_format-post-format-quote","wow fadeInUp","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.managerjs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}