Re:Former reporter creates ‘Rate my Professor’ for newsrooms
by ska on Saturday June 01, 2019 @03:51PM
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I see where you are going here, but you have to be careful of false equivalences. You can never fully remove the effect of bias, no matter how hard you try. However, if you genuinely want to you can significantly reduce its impact on your thinking, and thereby make more consistent decisions.
Really you only need three things, so it is "easy" but not easy, if you take my meaning. 1) you have to genuinely value and prioritize reducing your biases, knowing this may make for some difficult times for you. 2) you must develop a capability for critical thought (essentially, education though it need not be formal). 3) and most importantly you must do the work. And it is work.
Number (2) alone won't do you any good, which is why you see highly educated people who are very biased.
Really you only need three things, so it is "easy" but not easy, if you take my meaning. 1) you have to genuinely value and prioritize reducing your biases, knowing this may make for some difficult times for you. 2) you must develop a capability for critical thought (essentially, education though it need not be formal). 3) and most importantly you must do the work. And it is work.
Number (2) alone won't do you any good, which is why you see highly educated people who are very biased.