“To help us learn better from others, Boyd, Richerson, and their colleagues—such as anthropologist [[Joe Henrich]] or biologist [[Kevin Laland]]—suggest that **humans are endowed with a series of rough heuristics to guide their cultural learning**. One of these rules of thumb extends our ability to learn from the most successful. Because it can be difficult to tell which of a successful individual’s actions are responsible for their success—why Alex was able to produce a given dish well, say—**it might be safer to copy indiscriminately everything successful people do and think, down to their appearance or hairdo**. We can call this a success bias.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[success-bias]], [[social-proof]], [[in-group-out-group-bias]], [[authority-bias]], [[false-consensus-effect]], [[groupthink]], [[halo-effect]], [[liking-bias]], [[mimetic-theory]], [[not-invented-here-syndrome]], [[self-selection-bias]], [[social-comparison-bias]], [[mental-models]] **Source** -- [[251115105628 - B - Nonviolent Communication]]