Unconscious bias
Posted in mentat, mind, science on 2007-09-24 | No Comments »
Over the past few decades, growing evidence from cognitive science has revealed significant limits on the ability of individuals to criticize their own viewpoints. Even the most analytically gifted and experienced among us are susceptible to bias and self-deception to an extent that we (ironically enough) generally fail to appreciate.
[...] Science eventually yields impressive answers [...]