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