I love this! As someone that likes to look up cognitive biases and various psychology stuff, blind spot bias teaches humility and that there's more than one perception of something. For example, somebody using studies of cognitive biases to simply sum up "humanity sucks" or the No True Scotsman fallacy to prove an ideology with good intentions to be bad? Blind spot bias helps reassess that world-view/perspective and keeps it in check, in my opinion. The universe is too complicated and humanity is too diverse for it to just simply suck without taking the good stuff that's done into account, and also that having an ideology and world-view (when beneficial) is just part of being human, errors and all.
I think were all biased in the end, sometimes ill be with my kids and think isnt biased that i only spend time with my kids shouldnt i spend time with other kids? like family bias. I always told me kids what i would do if they got bullies but also what would happen if i found out they were bullies. I was going to initially write that im not biased but the truth is im just battling against it, its not like its hard or anything, id say quite enjoyable and does allow me to think from many many different perspectives, but atlas here we are at one of the most hardest bias to kick, the bias bias
This is only the 2nd video I’ve watched on the “Blindspot Bias” specifically - and I do not like the way they present it as something EVERYONE is guilty of - and their implication that everyone is guilty to the same extent. These videos state that those who think they are less biased than others are guilty of the Blind Spot Bias - but that is not necessarily true. Sure - I can see that something similar to the Dunning Kruger effect happens here with 900 out of 1000 people thinking they are less biased than others - which can’t be true - BUT 500 out of those 1000 people ARE likely to be less biased than others. That’s more than half of the people who believe that are less biased being correct (5/9). This video implies that the more certain you are that you are “less biased” than others, the more certain it is that you are committing the “Blind Spot Bias”. Where is the description of the process one can use to determine whether they really ARE less biased than others? Personally, I don’t think it’s fair (or accurate) to imply that everyone is victim to their biases to the same extent. Most of the time, I feel like I am able to recognize biases that affect my thinking and then remove them and re-consider the topic/assertion - especially in a discussion. How do I determine whether I’m correct or fooling myself? (Both videos I’ve watched so far seem to claim that I *am* fooling myself and do not leave any room for the possibility that I am not.)
this comment in itself is biased interpretation or ignorant. the point is not that you are ignorant but that you are more ignorant than you think. their is a possibility of you not being biased but only after you accept your biases and learn the debiasing strategies. all of the population is highly biased and that is our default. " Personally, I don’t think it’s fair (or accurate) to imply that everyone is victim to their biases to the same extent. " all of these claims are "personally" so no surprises there. it's perfectly fair and accurate to imply it and is backed by shit ton of evidence. "Most of the time, I feel like I am able to recognize biases that affect my thinking and then remove them and re-consider the topic/assertion - especially in a discussion. "proving the video right by playing right into it. who doesn't FEEL that way. two youtube video is not remotely enough. you need much much much much much more
@@riynu7774 Without knowing me or anything about me, you’ve assumed that I’m “typical” and just like the majority of people who are slaves to their own biases and to being easily manipulated. And maybe if you were being forced to evaluate me, that would be a reasonable place to start - because you’d just be playing the odds and you don’t actually know anything about me - but it’s your mistake to accept it as truth (as you seem to have done). You don’t have nearly enough evidence to make such a conclusion. And in fact, you’re so certain that I can’t possibly be right, that you’ve gone ahead and composed a reply to tell me so! But when people claim to be far less biased than most other people - because they’ve engaged in introspection and challenged their own thoughts and beliefs - and they are convinced that they are able to recognize their own biased thoughts and then filter out that bias and consider an issue or assertion “objectively” - is it not even remotely possible that any of those people are both telling the truth and correct? Of course it’s possible - but you claim that it’s not. In fact, you imply the exact opposite - that someone thinking that they can remove their own bias from an analysis is PROOF that they are MORE biased than most (or ignorant). Well, if you accuse EVERYBODY you come across of that, you’ll likely be right more often than you’re wrong - but you *will* be wrong many times - and this is one of those times when simply playing the odds like that does make you wrong. In the future, perhaps you won’t be so quick to pass a judgement one way or the other when you know you don’t have enough evidence to reasonably do so - but it’s more likely that because of your own biased thinking, you won’t even allow yourself to consider or accept the fact that you might be wrong - like in this case! And like most people, you’ll just double-down on your original assertion even though you still don’t have any real evidence to support it. You know what the Dunning Kruger effect is, right? It’s the tendency or phenomenon that most people tend to over rate their own intelligence. And in one study that asked “Do you think you’re smarter than the average person?”, 90% of people said that they were. So - if I then told you that I’m smarter than 90% of the people on the planet, would you tell me that the fact that I *think* so actually proves that I’m suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect and almost certainly much “less intelligent” than the average person? You’re not even allowing for the possibility that you’re interacting with a corner case - or an exception to the rule. But if you round up all of the people in North America and then randomly pick out any 99 of them and add me to the group, I’m almost guaranteed to be one of the 3 smartest people in that group.
This video should have way more views.
I needed a video that explained this better than I can. Thank you.
I love this! As someone that likes to look up cognitive biases and various psychology stuff, blind spot bias teaches humility and that there's more than one perception of something.
For example, somebody using studies of cognitive biases to simply sum up "humanity sucks" or the No True Scotsman fallacy to prove an ideology with good intentions to be bad?
Blind spot bias helps reassess that world-view/perspective and keeps it in check, in my opinion. The universe is too complicated and humanity is too diverse for it to just simply suck without taking the good stuff that's done into account, and also that having an ideology and world-view (when beneficial) is just part of being human, errors and all.
I think were all biased in the end, sometimes ill be with my kids and think isnt biased that i only spend time with my kids shouldnt i spend time with other kids? like family bias. I always told me kids what i would do if they got bullies but also what would happen if i found out they were bullies. I was going to initially write that im not biased but the truth is im just battling against it, its not like its hard or anything, id say quite enjoyable and does allow me to think from many many different perspectives, but atlas here we are at one of the most hardest bias to kick, the bias bias
Great!
Interesting!!!
This is only the 2nd video I’ve watched on the “Blindspot Bias” specifically - and I do not like the way they present it as something EVERYONE is guilty of - and their implication that everyone is guilty to the same extent.
These videos state that those who think they are less biased than others are guilty of the Blind Spot Bias - but that is not necessarily true. Sure - I can see that something similar to the Dunning Kruger effect happens here with 900 out of 1000 people thinking they are less biased than others - which can’t be true - BUT 500 out of those 1000 people ARE likely to be less biased than others. That’s more than half of the people who believe that are less biased being correct (5/9).
This video implies that the more certain you are that you are “less biased” than others, the more certain it is that you are committing the “Blind Spot Bias”. Where is the description of the process one can use to determine whether they really ARE less biased than others? Personally, I don’t think it’s fair (or accurate) to imply that everyone is victim to their biases to the same extent. Most of the time, I feel like I am able to recognize biases that affect my thinking and then remove them and re-consider the topic/assertion - especially in a discussion.
How do I determine whether I’m correct or fooling myself? (Both videos I’ve watched so far seem to claim that I *am* fooling myself and do not leave any room for the possibility that I am not.)
this comment in itself is biased interpretation or ignorant. the point is not that you are ignorant but that you are more ignorant than you think. their is a possibility of you not being biased but only after you accept your biases and learn the debiasing strategies. all of the population is highly biased and that is our default.
" Personally, I don’t think it’s fair (or accurate) to imply that everyone is victim to their biases to the same extent. " all of these claims are "personally" so no surprises there. it's perfectly fair and accurate to imply it and is backed by shit ton of evidence.
"Most of the time, I feel like I am able to recognize biases that affect my thinking and then remove them and re-consider the topic/assertion - especially in a discussion. "proving the video right by playing right into it. who doesn't FEEL that way. two youtube video is not remotely enough. you need much much much much much more
@@riynu7774 Without knowing me or anything about me, you’ve assumed that I’m “typical” and just like the majority of people who are slaves to their own biases and to being easily manipulated. And maybe if you were being forced to evaluate me, that would be a reasonable place to start - because you’d just be playing the odds and you don’t actually know anything about me - but it’s your mistake to accept it as truth (as you seem to have done). You don’t have nearly enough evidence to make such a conclusion. And in fact, you’re so certain that I can’t possibly be right, that you’ve gone ahead and composed a reply to tell me so!
But when people claim to be far less biased than most other people - because they’ve engaged in introspection and challenged their own thoughts and beliefs - and they are convinced that they are able to recognize their own biased thoughts and then filter out that bias and consider an issue or assertion “objectively” - is it not even remotely possible that any of those people are both telling the truth and correct? Of course it’s possible - but you claim that it’s not. In fact, you imply the exact opposite - that someone thinking that they can remove their own bias from an analysis is PROOF that they are MORE biased than most (or ignorant).
Well, if you accuse EVERYBODY you come across of that, you’ll likely be right more often than you’re wrong - but you *will* be wrong many times - and this is one of those times when simply playing the odds like that does make you wrong.
In the future, perhaps you won’t be so quick to pass a judgement one way or the other when you know you don’t have enough evidence to reasonably do so - but it’s more likely that because of your own biased thinking, you won’t even allow yourself to consider or accept the fact that you might be wrong - like in this case! And like most people, you’ll just double-down on your original assertion even though you still don’t have any real evidence to support it.
You know what the Dunning Kruger effect is, right? It’s the tendency or phenomenon that most people tend to over rate their own intelligence. And in one study that asked “Do you think you’re smarter than the average person?”, 90% of people said that they were. So - if I then told you that I’m smarter than 90% of the people on the planet, would you tell me that the fact that I *think* so actually proves that I’m suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect and almost certainly much “less intelligent” than the average person?
You’re not even allowing for the possibility that you’re interacting with a corner case - or an exception to the rule. But if you round up all of the people in North America and then randomly pick out any 99 of them and add me to the group, I’m almost guaranteed to be one of the 3 smartest people in that group.
we're human beings, we're fallible, God isn't since He knows the human heart better than anyone and knows us better than we know our own selves