Can bias be avoided?
Bias is not something we can easily avoid or stop.
It is, however, something we can keep in check – and use to our advantage to make better decisions.
Here are three techniques you can use to try and be thoughtful and open, keeping at least some bias out of the equation. 1.
Decision Quality .
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Thinking About Objectives
It’s important to have an expansive mindset about your objectives, too.
This will help you focus when it’s time to pick your most suitable options.
Most people unwittingly limit themselves by allowing only a subset of worthy goals to guide them, simply because they’re unaware of the full range of possibilities.
That’s a trap the senior management t.
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Thinking About Options
Although you need a critical mass of options to make sound decisions, you also need to find strong contenders—at least two but ideally three to five.
Of course, it’s easy to give in to the tug of System 1 thinking and generate a false choice to rationalize your intuitively favorite option (like a parent who asks an energetic toddler, “Would you lik.
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Thinking About The Future
Nearly everyone thinks too narrowly about possible outcomes.
Some people make one best guess and stop there (“If we build this factory, we will sell 100,000 more cars a year”).
Others at least try to hedge their bets (“There is an 80% chance we will sell between 90,000 and 110,000 more cars”).
Unfortunately, most hedging is woefully inadequate.
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What if a leader is making decisions without considering the consequences?
However, if a leader is making decisions without considering how the consequences will affect a specific individual, a group or an entire demographic, it's crucial for them to learn how to take a step back and address the unconscious bias that's playing a role in their decision-making process.
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What is a bias approach?
Approach:
- The approach surveys an array of biases to help students recognize them
- while outlining various techniques to help students reduce and hopefully even eliminate them
What do we mean by
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Why are we biased in our decision-making?
We are all biased in our decision-making because we are human.
We are all biased.
Our brains were designed to be.
We categorize information to store it, which means we have to make judgments.
Those judgments rely on our past experiences, which, in turn shape our perspectives.
