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Introductory Discussion
- Watch the film The Trouble with Cognitive Bias (Links to an external site.) by Learn Genetics. Give an example of cognitive bias you may have experienced recently.
- How do you think cognitive bias might influence someone’s acceptance of evolution or other scientific consensuses like human influenced climate change, a round earth, etc.?
Introductory Discussion Answer
After watching the film, I realized that I have had many cognitive biases throughout my life. One particular example that I recently experienced is the color I assign to genders, like blue for boys and pink for girls. This cognitive bias was revealed when my little cousin pointed to the top I am wearing and identified the blue deer as a boy and the pink one as a girl. I immediately agreed because the “boy deer” is color blue but she just looked at me and said, “No, because it has huge horns (antlers).