Iabalka comments on Is Rationality Teachable? - Less Wrong

43 Post author: lukeprog 01 September 2011 11:59AM

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Comment author: Iabalka 05 September 2011 01:52:58PM 0 points [-]

The word "Bias" is often associated with the word "prejudice" which has become loaded with rather negative associations. (People don't like others to think of them as "prejudiced") Especially as I am not a native english speaker until 2 days ago (I read LW since a month) I didn't make a distinction between bias and prejudice as in my language the 2 words have more or less the same translation . How can the general public be made to associate "bias" at least partially with "cognitive bias : a pattern of poor judgment" which every human brain has and there is nothing to be ashamed of?