What to Trust in a "Post-truth" World | TEDxLondon School of Business
In this talk, profeossor of Finance Alex Edmans explains the problems that arise from confirmation bias and offers an approach for avoiding it: learning to play devil's advocate with ourselves.
Prof. Tom Nicols discusses the current tendency to reject expertise as elitism, and the consequent dangers. He offers some explanation for how this suspicion arose and some suggestions for how to engage with experts when discussing their field of expertise.
The article is a precursor to Nicol's book The Death of Expertise.
One way to fight our own confirmation bias is to seek to falsify our views, to look for evidence that goes against our cherished theory, as illustrated in an experiment designed by Peter Cathcart Wason (also discussed in the What to Trust in a "Post-Truth" World TEDx Talk.)
In this article, Christopher Dwyer Ph.D. offers strategies for changing people's minds. However, the article is useful for those who want to avoid falling pray to their own confirmation biases. Dwyer lists the traits a person open to change is likely to have: reflective, open-minded, truth-seeking, skeptical, and persevering. These are traits individual's can work on in themselves to avoid falling prey to confirmation bias.
This article presents Dr. Edward de Bono's six thinking hats strategy for improving decision-making. De Bono, psychologist, philosopher, and author, suggests looking at a problem from a variety of perspectives, a useful tool when trying to avoid one's own tendency to confirm one's biases.
We make decisions all the time. Whether we realise it or not, how we feel has a big impact on the decisions we make. So, how do we find a level of personal consistency, where we never look back and regret our choices?
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