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Review: The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds - Jessica Nordell (Granta)
"Bias comes in more flavours than Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Well known biases
of gender, race, age, class, weight, and media barely scratch the surface.
Psychologists catalogue numerous biases of hindsight and foresight, attention
and memory, reasoning and intuition, as well as a litany of mental illusions,
fallacies, neglects, gaps and aversions. There is even the bias blindspot – our
mistaken belief we are less biased than others – and the “bias bias”: the
tendency to use the concept of bias too freely.
Behind this proliferation of biases is the fundamental insight that human
thinking is fallible. We fall prey to a range of errors that pull and push us
away from the ideals of rationality and fairness. If our departures from good
thinking and right action stem from these biases and errors, then identifying
and remedying them is an urgent task.
Jessica Nordell’s
The End of Bias is a powerful expression of the view that
bias is at the root of many social divisions and inequalities. Rather than
simply making this diagnosis, Nordell presents a strong case that bias can be
uprooted. Her book is a bracing review of the state of the science of bias, and
especially how its lessons can be applied to promote progressive social
change."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
