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Current news affairs have undergone a lot of changes in the last years and the constant migration to the online world has to be the most monumental of them all. However, not even the internet can abolish the bias that most accept exists inside our world news. Everything published through a corporation or massive news outlet often has its own secret agenda and those publishing it often do so with their own personal bias. Perhaps not always intentional or even noted by the company, but there's no denying that exists in a lot of places and has harmed the news industry quite a lot.
This topic of the optimism bias theory is becoming more popularly discussed in the field of psychology and the sub-fields related. By a quick Google or yahoo search you will find articles from TIME and The Huffington Post, and a TED presentation, all by Tali Sharot. I highly recommend reading and viewing these materials on this topic, because I will not approach this topic as she and many neuroscientist will by looking at statistical data.
Cognitive errors are more easily corrected because individuals are able to adapt their behavior if the source of the bias is logically identifiable. Just to give you an example, think of the Enron case where investors kept buying the company stock although red flags were signalled by some analysts. Why did it happen? Investors focused on positive information that was confirming their beliefs and disregarded negative information such as the red flags. Confirmation bias is a cognitive error. Individuals sometime overweight information that resonates with their forecast or belief and dismiss information that conflicts with their thought process. When one understands that contradictory information could help him better assess the situation, one will be more inclined to adapt his behavior. In other words, cognitive biases can be 'moderated' up to the point where they are reduced or eliminated. It takes better information, education and advice to correct for them.
Even in today's cultivated society, hiring biases are everywhere. Women make up only 2.6 percent of the construction industry, says the National Women's Law Center. This number has barely changed over the last 30 years. In addition to gender discrimination, Age discrimination is a problem in the engineering and tech industries; loaded job offers that call for "new grads" ensure this.
To make things worse, studies show that many hiring biases may be unintentional or superficially benevolent. This is no excuse, however; the legendary author C.S. Lewis put it best when he said that "tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." From gender and ethnic discrimination to the lesser-known "affinity bias", here are three of the most prominent involuntary hiring biases in the workplace.
It would be great or maybe not if helping people change their behavior was easy. In my coaching practice and having taught a self-management course for fifteen years, I learned that most people resist change even if it is in their own interest. There are a myriad of reasons why people fear change and the reasons for each individual may be different. Many people have internalized voices of fear, perfectionism, overwhelm, scarcity and impatience. Asking people to change runs into the very prevalent human dynamic of confirmation bias.
A "blind second opinion" is seeing another doctor, but not providing him any of the other doctor's notes, lab results, x-ray results, or biopsy results. Advocates feel that by not giving the second opinion doctor any information that it makes him more objective and less likely to be biased by the first doctor's work-up and assessment. The problem is that since the second doctor is essentially starting from scratch, the patient may need to undergo repeat testing which may be costly. Also, if
the second opinion differs from the first, it won't be clear to the patient why the doctors disagreed with each other since neither one has access to the other's information.
Everyone surely wants to get compensated for everything that he/she does whether it's in the form of money, gratitude or kindness. We want to feel that what we do is valuable. From time to time, we feel that we need to get a tap of approval from the boss, or a simple "good job" from our mom. This is the same when taking paid opinions and surveys. The time we spend in filling out a survey form is important to us. Our opinions are also important to research companies. Thus, they pay for a simple task like survey taking.
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