What is the difference between psychic numbing and scope insensitivity?

Psychic numbing refers specifically to the emotional saturation felt as numbers increase, while scope insensitivity is the broader failure to adjust valuations or efforts across all dimensions of magnitude.

What is scope insensitivity in decision making?

Scope insensitivity is a cognitive bias where a person's valuation or emotional response to a problem does not increase proportionally with the magnitude of that problem.

How does this Claude Code skill improve problem-solving?

It forces Claude to use analytical reasoning instead of affective heuristics, ensuring that resource allocation and project priorities scale correctly with the actual size of the impact.

Can this skill be used for business strategy?

Yes, it is highly effective for product prioritization and revenue opportunity analysis where small, emotionally appealing features might otherwise outweigh higher-impact strategic changes.

Scope Insensitivity Analysis

Name: Scope Insensitivity Analysis
Author: lev-os

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生产力与工作流

Applies proportional analysis and cognitive bias mitigation to help scale decision-making and resource allocation accurately.

This skill provides a systematic framework for identifying and correcting scope insensitivity—a cognitive bias where emotional responses fail to scale with the magnitude of a problem. By implementing unit-asking, concrete visualizations, and per-unit metrics, it helps users move beyond affective heuristics to make rational, data-driven decisions in fields like product prioritization, policy evaluation, and risk management. It is particularly useful for overcoming 'psychic numbing' when dealing with large-scale data or human-centric impacts.

主要功能

01Detects flat emotional responses across exponential scale differences

02Mitigates the Identifiable Victim Effect in communication design

03Converts aggregate data into per-unit metrics for rational comparison

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05Generates concrete visualizations to counter psychic numbing

06Implements unit asking and reference class comparisons

使用场景

01Evaluating charitable or social impact projects using cost-per-life-saved metrics

02Designing risk communication strategies for large-scale technical or environmental threats

03Prioritizing product features by calculating 100x user impact differences

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add lev-os/agents scope-insensitivity

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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