Best Of: Everyone's Biased, But Me (Itiel Dror)

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Knox Robinson Productions

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, True Crime, Mental Health

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Dr. Itiel Dror is used to facing resistance to his work. It comes with the territory when you're a neuroscientist studying cognitive bias in experts: no one wants to believe they have biases they're not aware of. But the pushback to a paper he published last year was extreme even by Dr. Dror's standards. After the paper came out, the ensuing backlash even threatened his job. Check out Dr. Dror's latest paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14697 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.amandaknox.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Bluesky: @amandaknox.com | @wisecracker.bsky.social IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@amamaknox⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠@emceecarbon⁠⁠⁠⁠ Free: My Search for Meaning: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/amanda-knox/free/9781538770719/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Today's best of episode is number 50.
0:33.0	Everyone's biased but me featuring Dr. ETL Droar.
0:37.3	Droar is one of the sharpest scientists out there
0:40.4	and a good friend of ours, and his specialty is looking at how cognitive bias impacts the forensic
0:46.9	sciences. He's done some startling work with fingerprint analysis, DNA analysis, blood splatter
0:53.3	analysis, and he has shown that though we tend
0:57.6	to think of these as objective sciences, the interpretation of these forensic results is often more
1:04.9	of an art, an art that can be grossly impacted by various cognitive biases.
1:16.7	So, for example, if you know that a suspect confessed or not as a fingerprint analyst,
1:21.4	will you change your determination about whether two prints match?
1:25.7	Jor has shown that the answer is yes, quite a lot of the time.
1:29.8	Throughout his career, he has shown this effect of cognitive bias in many forensic domains, but things got a little more heated when he tried to show the
1:36.2	same effect in the area of forensic pathology. This time, he found his very career threatened.
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