Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. psychology The tendency of people to place subsequently refined answers to a given question close to the initially estimated answer, giving unduly weight to the initial answer, such as adjusting the initial estimate of "20%" to "30%" when "90%" would be more appropriate.
- v. present participle of anchor.
Examples
“Chase said seeing more than one choice might also help doctors move away from what he called "anchoring," or getting too attached to a diagnosis.”
“Has also blocked eight shots thus far in anchoring Hawks '2-1 start.”
“I have a few more introspective playlists too … anchoring is a good thing.”
5 Clever Ways To Keep Your Muse On Speed Dial | Write to Done
“Sabean similarly argues for the importance of women in anchoring kin networks in early-modern Germany, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 379 – 97. back”
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
“Oh, this is good, - ¿ said the guide, anchoring from the bow and getting out a couple of medium-weight spinning rods rigged with hook and cork bobber.”
A Keys Report: Fishing the Backcountry with Executive Editor Mike Toth
“Whether she is out reporting on the street or anchoring from the desk.”
“Then they are put back onto their properties by cranes and the short anchoring is secured again.”
“Here anchoring is inseparable from adjusting to how fluid movement creates”
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism
“The third systematic bias is referred to as anchoring and adjustment.”
“Chase said seeing more than one choice might also help doctors move away from what he called "anchoring," or getting too attached to a diagnosis.”
USA Today: 'Jeopardy!'-winning computer delving into medicine
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T:PSYCHO - misinterpretations
Cognitive and social biases. Primary source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
actor-observer bias, ambiguity effect, anchoring, attentional bias, availability cascade, availability heur..., backfire effect, bandwagon effect, base rate neglect..., belief bias, bias blind spot, change bias and 151 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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