Week 3‐ Bias in Information - liabilityissue/Information-Assurance GitHub Wiki
Decision making, risk management, technical approaches, resource allocation. diversity of perspectives and etc
Steps in making a good decision: objective, logical, forecasting, assessment, and evaluation
Motivational Bias: “Filter” that changes what say/do from what you believe
Cognitive Bias: Unconscious factors that can distort beliefs
Non Verbal Bias: We prefer to scrap own opinion in favor of the groups' opinion
Affinity Bias: When we see someone we feel have an affinity with e.g. we attended the same college
Halo/Horns effect: halo is when we see one great thing about a person and we let the halo glow of that significant thing affect our opinions of everything else
Similarity bias: We want to surround ourselves with people we feel are similar to us. And as a result, we tend to want to work more with people who are like us
Contrast Effect: We should be comparing are the skills and attributes each individual has, to the skills and attributes required required for the job, not those of the person that came directly before them
Attribution Bias: When we do something badly we tend to believe that our failing is down to external factors like other people that adversely affected us and prevented us from doing our best
Confirmation Bias: When we make a judgement about another person, we subconsciously look for evidence to back up our own opinions of that person. We do this because we want to believe we're right and that we've made the right assessment
Conformity Bias: Occurs when a positive or negative evaluation is made of someone based on their body language, personal appearance, or style of dress