Our ancestors survived through a bias for action (e.g. eating every scrap of food I can get my hands on or clubbing a creature that looks at me sideways) not a bias for planning (thinking about retirement from hunting and gathering).

FORBES: Are you facing your own Fiscal Cliff?

We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias (our tendency to reaffirm our beliefs rather than contradict them), narrative fallacy (our weakness for compelling stories), silent evidence (our failure to account for what we don't see), ludic fallacy (our willingness to oversimplify and take games or models too seriously), and epistemic arrogance (our habit of overestimating our knowledge and underestimating our ignorance).

WSJ: Shattering the Bell Curve

Barclays said investors should expect neutral monetary policy with a bias toward tightening liquidity through open market operations.

FORBES: Barclays Warns On China

First off, I do have a personal bias which I am sincerely attempting to see through.

FORBES: On The Mississippi, An Industry Is Floating On Taxpayer Money

So I have proposed ending the bias in the tax code against those who do not get their health insurance through their employer.

NPR: Text of Bush's State of the Union Address

In it, he defined eight characteristics of excellent companies: a bias for action, staying close to the customer, autonomy and entrepreneurship, productivity through people, clear and compelling organizational values, focusing on what you do best, operating with a lean staff, and finding a balance between having enough structure without getting stuck in it.

FORBES: Redefining Excellence for Today's World

When Dr Ioannidis ran the numbers through his model, he concluded that even a large, well-designed study with little researcher bias has only an 85% chance of being right.

ECONOMIST: Just how reliable are scientific papers?