In the above given example, the person who is making the statement has already seen young boy racers driving blue cars around the street so he presumes every blue fast car belonging to a boy racer and when it is a lady driving the car it has happened against the norms and hence such statement is inevitable which coming from the mind of the person based on his previous observations, this is a result of Cognitive Bias a glitch in the human mind which is explained below: Human minds consume data and store them in their memory, based on this data they often illogically connect patterns that leads to a judgement. People generally make decisions based on their observation but lack of investigative process; this is due to the fact that cognitive bias plays a big role in making such assumptions. Bias happens due to the brain taking shortcuts in creating a theory, this process is called Heuristics, Research on Cognitive bias was introduced by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in …show more content…
Judgements are often damaged by bias which proves that the human mind is limited; this limitation itself can be classified as Cognitive bias. Cognitive Bias is a definite human shortcoming, and shows that human thinking is limited to historical observations. We say stuff that we expect to happen based on some previous experience(s), the brain also likes to chat with people who would normally agree with it on certain aspects, another limited feature that is derived from cognitive bias is the support for majority regardless of the studying the facts, it is like supporting a team that wins the most, all these actions are a result of Cognitive