We humans are a lazy species. We look for short-cuts and imagine them when they don't exist.

While this trait may be quite creative, it tends to lead us down the wrong path.

Among the foremost of these cognitive biases stands the concept of "anchoring" – the idea that people regularly latch onto seemingly random factoids and use them as the basis point for making complex (and often detrimental) decisions.

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