Biases
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You know,
biases
are the stories we make up about people before we know who they actually are.
And we wonder why these
biases
don't die, and move from generation to generation?
The problem with having a theory is that it may be loaded with cognitive
biases.
We've seen that to be true with racism, homophobia and plenty of other biases, today and in the past.
We all have our
biases.
The fact is, we all have
biases
against what's different, what's different to our social norms.
Implicit
biases
are shortcuts the brain makes without us really knowing it.
They have to understand that learning about their implicit biases, having good training, tactics and deescalation and understanding how it impacts your decision making makes us all safer.
But in reality, our gut is extremely vulnerable to all kinds of wishful thinking and
biases.
Rumors that confirm people's
biases
are now believed and spread among millions of people.
If I could track how many people are changing their minds, I'd probably write more thoughtfully, trying to do that, rather than appealing to the people who already agree with me and "liking" because I just confirmed their
biases.
Race medicine also leaves patients of color especially vulnerable to harmful
biases
and stereotypes.
The right design can actually help us overcome one of our most deeply rooted
biases.
So we all have our own
biases.
Why are some people, sometimes at least, able to cut through their own prejudices and
biases
and motivations and just try to see the facts and the evidence as objectively as they can?
Well, they could just be reflecting our biases, and these systems could be picking up on our
biases
and amplifying them and showing them back to us, while we're telling ourselves, "We're just doing objective, neutral computation."
Such hidden
biases
and black-box algorithms that researchers uncover sometimes but sometimes we don't know, can have life-altering consequences.
So yes, humans have always made
biases.
Maybe we weren't even aware of our own implicit
biases.
Doctors, scientists and policy makers are not immune to the same
biases
that affect all of us.
As I mentioned before, repurposing can be challenging because of our prior
biases.
So it's time we make a promise of a world in which we've broken the stranglehold that nuclear weapons have on our imaginations; in which we invest in the creative solutions that come from working backward from the future we desperately want, rather than plodding forward from a present that brings all of the mental models and
biases
of the past with it.
Something like homeownership is much more difficult to see, so we revert to our own heuristics, our own
biases
about how many people we think own their own homes.
It's vitally important that we help each other, because society is increasingly placing people in silos based on
biases
and ideologies.
And in order to have that continuing education, we need to anchor it to cutting-edge research in both the life sciences and the social sciences, because we need to recognize that too often historical traumas and implicit
biases
sit in the space between a new mother and her clinician.
If they all produce a very similar-looking face, then we can start to become confident that they're not imposing their own cultural
biases
on the drawings.
Professor Patricia Devine of the University of Wisconsin has shown us how we can attack our hidden
biases
head on and effectively reduce them.
It goes like this: we just can't step outside of our own perspectives; we can't step outside of our
biases.
Nonetheless, skepticism about truth can be tempting, because it allows us to rationalize away our own
biases.
The fake news that spread on the internet during the American presidential election of 2016 was designed to feed into our biases, designed to inflate our bubbles.
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