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I would argue that List of Common Misconceptions[0] belongs in any list of important or vital Wikipedia-articles.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions

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Second only to the List of Cognitive Biases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

really... you think you know them all but you don't. Everyone needs to understand the IKEA effect for example

The problem I have with these sort of lists is that they try to be comprehensive and add a lot of second order biases that tend to drown the basic/ fundamental ones. Take your example for IKEA effect: it is in fact a consequence of loss aversion. Once you invest emotion, time or money into something, you assign more value to it, because you do not want "lose" your initial investment.

Is that again a consequence of "sunk cost" fallacy?

Keep in mind that certain biases are censored against e.g. Apex Fallacy.

The Wikipedia page on that was deleted due to a lack of reliable sources (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...). There still seem to be no reliable sources. (https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C6&q=%22a...)

I'll admit I don't see the point of many of the other cognitive biases, but at least they were coined or studied in some peer-reviewed papers.

I can't believe there's a wikipedia page consisting solely of things that I bring up during party conversations to seem interesting. Thanks for showing me this.

You're not alone in arguing for the importance of this page :) https://m.xkcd.com/843/

Ugh, the world has me figured out, but at least it approves.

obligatory link to lesswrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/

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