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blogger, but what is a bias?

There is a problem that I had not taken over. I had never addressed how we define what bias is, only I had turned to the task of spreading the idea that we are more limited than it appears and you have to have us a little less confident. Anyway. Now I'll try. Limitations

processing
As Maturana would say:
"living beings can only do what they are biologically possible"
In this way, a man will not be able to fly on their own (in any way we will develop wings and muscles needed to move and get up the floor again), and so we do not have an unlimited capacity for processing, information processing is an infinite task and our "processor" is of limited capacity. Examples are limitations in attentional capacity (Vásques quoted Broadbent, Treisman and Kahneman-who leave a text in one of the last entries-)

Difference between Error and Bias
Define
reality is a complicated matter, but in this instance defined as:
1-The perceptual reality (the colors I see, things I feel, the sounds I hear)
2-interpretative reality (this is subject to a greater degree of uncertainty as regards spheres "intangibles" such as questions about whether I'm happy, if Juan angry, etc)

Having defined this, we can now say that a distortion or an error are necessary 2 things, the first being a standard or benchmark against which performance is tested, the second objective would be a deviation (which can be viewed by more than one observer)
In this way we may classify error in processing the information when someone hears things that are not present. It should be out of context to note that laboratory and severe mental illness, it is difficult when there is really a failure or not.

The bias other hand it is a response tendency consistently maintained in virtually any situation, unlike errors which tend to be more casual.

None of the latter necessarily lead to problems of adjustment or adaptation to reality, such as illusory correlation bias, more specifically I mean the principle of co-variation (if A then B varies, then many-to-B) is a very recurrent bias but that is of great adaptive value (if we had not learned to correlate with certain predators may sound nor would the living).
So why do we have biases? This brings us back to what I wrote at first, given our limited processing capacity we had to develop mechanisms to provide us with information processing though often because of them make mistakes (although they are more successful than we would like to believe)

and that is what I have to say.
I leave before I left a TED talk that talks about our natural tendency to look for patterns.