Personal bias can be a stumbling block to successful negotiations. Learn how to use critical thinking to overcome bias and understand the importance of critiquing preconceived notions and hypotheses using constructive self-criticism. You're Probably More Biased than You Think When two parties sit dow...
Topics discussed include prevalence of discrimination against women attorneys in the profession, ways to mitigate it and need to work together to eradicate gender bias. The author states that being a good lawyer is certainly the first step to stand for oneself and challenge men to command the ...
In a job interview, recruiters have only a short window of time in which to determine whether a candidate could be the right person for the job. As such, it’s almost inevitable that this process is rife with biases. Among the most common are the affinity bias (unconsciously...
Featured image fromour interview with Mary Ralph Bradleyby Michelle Nash. A January Bucket List to Inspire Your Fresh Start While new years past have centered around goal setting, trip planning, calendar scheduling, and socializing, this time around I’m keeping things simple. As we head into ...
This work can be applied to other disparities where two distinct groups are defined, such as in cases of gender, religion or socioeconomic status. More information:Michele Samorani et al, Overbooked and Overlooked: Machine Learning and Racial Bias in Medical Appointment Scheduling,Manufacturing & ...
Do you want to learn to overcome biases in your thinking? A trained therapist can help you see clearly Researchers believe that everyone experiences some degree of confirmation bias, whether they are conscious of it or not. Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias that supports a person’s personal...
How to Overcome Bias Since sample selection bias may significantly distort the results of the study and lead to erroneous conclusions, a researcher should know how to deal with this type of bias. The most obvious method is the establishment of a random sample selection process. By analyzing ...
happy and excited. And while it’s hard to control your emotional state, you can still at least write what you feel before starting the session. This information will help you analyze the research results and separate your emotional state from the qualitative data collected during the interview....
With that, here are eight common cognitive biases and some tools that can help you overcome them—or use them to your professional advantage. Optimism Bias Optimism bias is our tendency to overestimate the odds of our own success compared to other people's. Think of the Silicon Valley entrepre...
In his new book, The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance That Awaits New Ideas (Wiley, 2021), the award-winning professor and coauthor Loran Nordgren offer solutions on how to overcome hesitancy that gets in the way of innovation. An edited version of the int...