{"id":10218,"date":"2019-07-19T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:12:55","slug":"achievement-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/achievement-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Even Want Success? (The Perils of Achievement Bias)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biases distort our perception of reality.<\/p>\n

Consider survivorship bias<\/a>. This is the fact that when viewing a group, you often only have the ability to look at the success stories, not the losers. As a result, you may be deceived that certain traits matter because they show up in all successes (even if they also show up in a lot of the failures too).<\/p>\n

Or consider the friends\u2019 paradox<\/a>. This occurs because your assessment of what is common amongst your peers is based on what your friends do. However some people have more friends than others, which means that when you take an average of your friends, the more extroverted people get counted more. This leads to perceptions of drinking and promiscuity being higher than the actual average, due to a distortion in who you look at.<\/p>\n

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These biases are real, but today I\u2019d like to look at a different one: achievement bias.<\/p>\n

Achievement Bias: You Only Hear About Those Obsessed with Success<\/h2>\n
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