3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview

Name: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
Uploaded: 2018-12-11T15:39:24Z
Duration: 12 min 11 s
Description: What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know -- and shares ideas for how we can replace them with something much more powerful: knowledge.

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J. Marshall Shepherd |

TEDxUGA

• March 2018

What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know -- and shares ideas for how we can replace them with something much more powerful: knowledge.