Countering 'Champion bias'
November 2016 (Source: Google) Watching "Enough said", a critically acclaimed romantic comedy-drama film, got me thinking about the ' lesser discussed cousin of the cognitive biases family' - champion bias . This movie is about Eva, a divorced masseuse who unexpectedly finds herself dating her friend's ex-husband Albert. The beauty of the film lies in its honest and realistic depiction of life. Eva likes Albert, finds his idiosyncrasies cute, and bursts into laughter at his weird jokes. Around the same time she becomes friends with a successful poet and looks upto her for advice. She eventually stumbles upon the fact that Albert is her friend's ex-husband, but doesn't reveal her respective relationship to either of them. Eva is stupiefied that all the things she finds endearing about Albert, are the exact same aspects that her friend finds repulsive! Her dialogue from the movie says it all, "I have lost all perspective. I've been lis