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Science communicator Bethany Brookshire (host of the podcast Science for the People) shared this observation on Twitter. After her tweet went viral, she decided to determine whether her intuition was actually true. She checked all the emails she had received in response to interview requests she had sent out for her podcast between 2016 and 2017. She tweeted the results a week later: “New post: I took the data on this. It turns out… I was wrong.” There was no gender difference between salutation types in the emails.
Everybody is susceptible to unconscious bias, political and social prejudices. Being aware of yours before you form an opinion on a subject can help prevent them from interfering with your judgement. How can you tell that your judgments are not biassed? 1, 2, 3, 4 Here are some questions you can ask:
Additional information on this example can be found in “The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t” (Galef, J. (2021). Penguin. p. 53-54).
Science communicator Bethany Brookshire (host of the podcast Science for the People) shared this observation on Twitter. After her tweet went viral, she decided to determine whether her intuition was actually true. She checked all the emails she had received in response to interview requests she had sent out for her podcast between 2016 and 2017. She tweeted the results a week later: “New post: I took the data on this. It turns out… I was wrong.” There was no gender difference between salutation types in the emails.
Everybody is susceptible to unconscious bias, political and social prejudices. Being aware of yours before you form an opinion on a subject can help prevent them from interfering with your judgement. How can you tell that your judgments are not biassed? 1, 2, 3, 4 Here are some questions you can ask:
Additional information on this example can be found in “The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t” (Galef, J. (2021). Penguin. p. 53-54).
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