{"id":82781,"date":"2022-11-02T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=82781"},"modified":"2022-11-07T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:36:08","slug":"what-are-your-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-your-biases\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Biases? How to Use Questions to Identify Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are your biases? Do you assume that something is true just because it&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve been told?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking<\/em>, award-winning educators Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird emphasize that your view on a subject will, undoubtedly, have bias. They recommend using questions to look for bias in your perspective (not just your argument) and to guard against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/authority-bias\/\">authority bias<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn how to use questions to identify and eliminate your biases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-use-questions-to-identify-your-bias\">Use Questions to Identify Your Bias<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your biases? Burger and Starbird recommend the following techniques to help you identify them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. <\/strong><strong>Look for bias in your perspective, not just your argument<\/strong>. Reverse your beliefs and explore them. How would someone with the opposite perspective view this issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, say you\u2019re an astrobiologist studying the viability of other planets for sustaining life. If you already believe there\u2019s no life beyond Earth, that may affect the way you carry out your research and potentially impede your progress. Instead, decide one day that life beyond Earth <em>does<\/em> exist, and spend some time researching from that perspective. You may find that the opposing belief has more credibility than you once thought, or, at the very least, you\u2019ll gain a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-understand-anything-deeply\/\">deeper understanding<\/a> of your original belief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. <\/strong><strong>Watch out for authority bias<\/strong>. Don\u2019t assume things are true just because that\u2019s what you\u2019ve been told.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors give the example of Aristotle claiming that objects of different weights will fall at different speeds and how that claim was widely accepted as true for over a millennium. Galileo Galilei famously decided to put this idea to the test and discovered that objects fall at the same velocity regardless of weight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In doing so, he identified a bias in his foundational understanding: a claim he only believed because an authority had passed down that knowledge. When he questioned that claim and decided to test it for himself, he was able to fix a broken piece of his foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Authority Bias<\/strong><br><br>The authors don\u2019t explicitly use the term <em>authority bias<\/em>, but that is the term for the tendency to believe information we receive from a source that we view as an authority. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/common-types-of-biases\/\">type of bias<\/a> can have far greater consequences than perpetuating misconceptions about gravity.<br><br>Stanley Milgram is well-known for his experiment that demonstrated the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplypsychology.org\/milgram.html\">effect of authority bias on our behavior<\/a>. His intention was to study how humans were able to be convinced to carry out atrocities such as The Holocaust. The results demonstrated that a majority of participants obeyed orders to cause another person physical pain because they were told to do so by someone who seemed like an authority.<br><br>This concept mirrors the ideas conveyed in the writings of Hannah Arendt, who coined the phrase \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-the-banality-of-evil\/\">banality of evil<\/a>.\u201d Arendt argued that most of the people who carried out the Holocaust were not psychopaths or people otherwise unbothered by human suffering, but were <a href=\"https:\/\/philosophybreak.com\/articles\/hannah-arendt-on-standing-up-to-the-banality-of-evil\/\">people who failed to examine and question the things they were being told to do by authority figures.<\/a> She suggests that it is a lack of critical thinking that leads to such atrocities.<br><br>Based on this, it seems logical that practicing a method of thinking that would dismantle this type of bias could not only benefit the individual in the way that Burger and Starbird describe, but could also serve to prevent large-scale destructive or harmful behavior such as war and genocide.<br><br>Still, while Galileo\u2019s method may have been ideal, most of us don\u2019t have the resources to personally test every single piece of information we\u2019re given. Especially since the internet has exploded our ability to share ideas, a vital tool in navigating all this information is being able to assess the reliability of a source of information. Questioning is perhaps the best way to accomplish this, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/finding-new-home\/202001\/what-is-the-craap-test\">experts offer some specific methods of questioning<\/a> to suss out how much credence you should put in a particular source. They specifically recommend that you assess:<br>\u2022 Whether a source is offering information that is up-to-date<br>\u2022 Whether it relates to what you\u2019re trying to learn about<br>\u2022 What expertise the source has on the matter<br>\u2022 Where the source got its information<br>\u2022 What reason the source had to put this information out there&nbsp;<br><br>Sometimes a source is not only biased but is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/unpacking-social-relations\/202003\/10-ways-spot-online-misinformation#:~:text=you%20find%20something%20that%20seems%20compelling,the%20subject.%20For%20a%20view%20of%20media\">engaging in deliberate misinformation to achieve personal or political goals.<\/a> This type of misinformation or propaganda often appeals to our emotions in order to manipulate us and can often be identified using the same methods listed above.&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are your biases? 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