We have more information at our fingertips than ever before… but this doesn’t mean we’re making better decisions. Why? One culprit: the confirmation bias. From DNA analysis and political debates to the strategies we use in business and fantasy football, our desire to confirm our beliefs skews how we interpret the data in front of us.
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We have more information at our fingertips than ever before… but this doesn’t mean we’re making better decisions. Why? One culprit: the confirmation bias. From DNA analysis and political debates to the strategies we use in business and fantasy football, our desire to confirm our beliefs skews how we interpret the data in front of us.
Voices are more than just sounds. They’re auditory faces that can give clues to who we are. In the time it takes to say “hello,” we can identify a person’s ethnic or cultural background as different from ours. Yet this can lead to other impressions that are just...wrong. How might accents influence our judgments? And what’s the cost?
Outsmarting Implicit Bias
We have more information at our fingertips than ever before… but this doesn’t mean we’re making better decisions. Why? One culprit: the confirmation bias. From DNA analysis and political debates to the strategies we use in business and fantasy football, our desire to confirm our beliefs skews how we interpret the data in front of us.
