Detecting, Understanding, and Mitigating Cognitive Bias

This question set presents a variety of scenarios that invite you to apply your knowledge of cognitive bias, heuristics, and motivated reasoning by identifying and analyzing potential instances and sources of cognitive bias.

Topics

  • availability heuristic
  • base rate neglect
  • bias
  • bias mitigation
  • bias mitigation strategies
  • cognitive bias
  • confirmation bias
  • consider the opposite
  • detecting bias
  • gambler’s fallacy
  • groupthink
  • heuristic reasoning
  • heuristics
  • high school
  • motivated reasoning
  • reasoning
  • representativeness heuristic
  • scientific reasoning
  • self-serving bias
  • understanding bias
  • wishful thinking