Skills 360 – What is Cognitive Bias?

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/BEP115c-Charts-2.mp3 Welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on describing trends during a presentation in English. Every great presentation has two things: good content and skilled delivery. These aren’t separate features. ...  Show more

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/bizpod/BEN61-Data-Centers.mp3 In this Business English News lesson on data centers, we look at business English vocabulary related to energy supply and tech. AI seemed relatively uncontroversial when it was limited to simple functions in your too ...  Show more

In this episode, we encourage you to take a closer look at your own biases by removing the metaphorical glasses that may cloud your perception. We'll delve into the impact of cognitive biases, which are patterns of thinking that deviate from rational and objective thought. We'll ...  Show more

In this episode we are going to talk about how random dice rolls can influence judges to give people longer jail sentences, how so-called experts are massively influenced by completely random numbers – even when they explicitly deny it – and how you can better understand this cra ...  Show more

Your perception is biased. Understanding the world around you is probably biased because of how the brain jumps to conclusions. These types of jumps are called cognitive biases. They seek to create a story out of as little information as possible, to avoid uncertainty. Battling c ...  Show more

My guest today is celebrated research psychologist Gary Klein who has spent nearly 50 years studying how and why people make the decisions they do. We discuss naturalistic decision making, the crucial difference between experience and expertise, why some people stagnate and other ...  Show more