WHERE THERE IS BIAS--- LET THERE BE COMPETENCE
When it comes to us humans—our brains are biased in a great many ways. When you study the cognitive biases, these ‘shortcuts’ in thinking operate as heuristic that help us make quick snap judgments. Often, perhaps even usually, they are good biases helping us to cope with the world. Yet as society c
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WHERE THERE’S BIAS
COMPETENCE IS THE SOLUTION
When it comes to us humans—our brains are biased in a great many ways. When you study the cognitive biases, these ‘shortcuts’ in thinking operate as heuristic that help us make quick snap judgments. Often, perhaps even usually, they are good biases helping us to cope with the world. Yet as society changes and as the world changes, many of the cognitive biases are no longer useful, and some are downright harmful.
This is especially true of the social biases, a set of biases which dominate all human societies. We all have a bias for “our own kind of people.” And during primitive times when tribes were the dominant ‘institution,’ that made sense. But the very idea “our kind of people” itself is a fallacious way of thinking because we are all of the same species—human! If we were not, we could not inter-marry, but we can. So any distinction that we invent that separates us from others—skin color, face, nose, head, etc. shapes, all of that is within the same category of ‘being human.’ We cannot use any of that as a bias against other people.
