Don’t Bother Me With Facts; I Know Truth: Why Combatting Bias is Hard

In this episode, the hosts discuss sociological and psychological factors which sustain our biases.  Topics include Confirmation Bias; tolerance of Hate Speech; support for False Equivalents; and the Dunning-Kruger, or Lake Wobegon Effect.

Confirmation Bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias 

Take an Implicit bias test

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html  

ACLU debate on free speech

Jay Smooth – Floss and racial discourse

https://nonprofitaf.com/2016/08/flossing-and-the-dental-hygiene-paradigm-of-race-discourse/ 

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