Act of God, Cognitive Biases

The 3 biases are input biases, hypothesis generation and selection, plan generation and action selection biases.

For input, Bill weighted the earliest incoming information heaviest. He did not search very far for information, including not going to the room that had the right display. For hypothesis generation Bill had one hypothesis and stuck to it and did not come up with new ideas. For selection, he rejected Kennedy's alternative, even though Kennedy was right. For action selection, most people argued that he talked on the phone rather than taking the necessary actions to correct the situation, therefore demonstrating not taking action.

4 marks for biases well explained. 4 marks for connecting them to the story correctly. 8 marks total.