3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview | J. Marshall Shepherd

TED Talks Science and Medicine

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4.2 • 833 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

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Summary

What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know -- and shares ideas for how we can replace them with something much more powerful: knowledge.

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