The impact of cognitive biases on architectural decision-making has been proven by previous research. In this work, we endeavour to create a debiasing treatment that would minimise the impact of cognitive biases on architectural decision-making. We conducted a pilot study on two groups of students, to investigate whether a simple debiasing presentation reporting on the influences of cognitive biases, can provide a debiasing effect. The preliminary results show that this kind of treatment is ineffective. Through analysing our results, we propose a set of modifications that could result in a better effect.
@article{arxiv.2111.04362,
title = {Is knowledge the key? An experiment on debiasing architectural decision-making -- a pilot study},
author = {Klara Borowa and Robert Dwornik and Andrzej Zalewski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.04362},
year = {2021}
}