Deb Schiano
Info and learning experiences. How personal bias affects information consumption, polarization and decision making.
(by Theo Dombrowski, from OUP blog) Here’s a challenge for your students. Are they open to changing their opinions if faced with contrary facts? Today we offer a class exercise – ready for you to d…
Rate your own bias...
Article. Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?
A class demonstration of a scientific confirmation bias by using the 2-4-6 task.
Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The ...
Students define explicit, implicit, and confirmation bias, and examine why people sometimes maintain their beliefs in the face of contradictory information.
From The Washington Post: Google’s corporate mission is “to organize the world’s information,” but it also bends it to its will. From Argentina to the United Kingdom to Iran, the world’s borders look different depending on where you’re viewing them from. That’s because Google — and other online mapmakers — simply change them. And while maps […]
Students consider how confirmation bias and motivated reasoning shape the way we respond to evidence presented in news and opinion pieces.
Those who are most distrustful of the news media, and those with more extreme political views, tend to be the most biased readers, research shows.
A wider variety of news sources was supposed to be the bulwark of a rational age. Instead, we are roiled by biases, gorging on what confirms our ideas and shunning what does not.
Want to see how the other half live-tweets? The technology that insulated you will now free you.
Increasing tribalism goes beyond perceptions of news; it imperils the government’s ability to function and democracy itself, researchers say.
Democracy presumes civic wisdom. When voters grasp truth, when facts prevail over misinformation, prudence prevails. When the electorate understands what
A folk tale from India that teaches intercultural awareness by illustrating how different perspectives lead to distinct points of view.
RAND is studying “Truth Decay”—the diminishing reliance on facts and analysis in American public life. Truth Decay presents a threat to both evidence-based policymaking and democracy. RAND invites fellow researchers and engaged stakeholders to join our efforts to find solutions.
Teaching Students about Confirmation Bias. Concerns about the impact of fake news are actually concerns about learning to know. That’s why teaching about confirmation bias is imperative.
Podcast: Episode 2 Understanding Cognitive Bias
Ever get fooled online? It might be because of the way your brain works. Professors Steven Sloman and Lisa Fazio describe cognitive biases and give advice to help students recognize and overcome common errors.
Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of
history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a
cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond
sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler
unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of The Republic.
Humans aren't rational creatures, but the folks at 'Social Good Now' have some ideas for what we can do about it.
Insights and advice to escaping the echo chambers of social media, newsfeeds, and everyday conversation so that we may get a better, less rose-tinted grasp of the world and people around us.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs -- or a scout, spurred by curiosity? Julia Galef examines the motivations behind these two mindsets and how they shape the way we interpret information, interweaved with a compelling history lesson from 19th-century France. When your steadfast opinions are tested, Galef asks: 'What do you most yearn for? Do you yearn to defend your own beliefs or do you yearn to see the world as clearly as you possibly can?'
New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
