{"id":778,"date":"2008-07-16T17:48:59","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T22:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=778"},"modified":"2018-11-13T05:09:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T00:09:21","slug":"contemplating-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/contemplating-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating bias&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/chris_lee.png\" alt=\"chris_lee.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about \u201cbias\u201d of late (\u201ca tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result\u201d) and the not-so-nuanced role that it plays re: objectivity in this communication age\u2026 especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cognitive_biases\" target=\"_blank\">cognitive bias<\/a>, for which Wikipedia offers an excellent resource list <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_cognitive_biases\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Thanks Chris Lee (an intern at Circle last year) for the brain-image; thanks Marie-Aline Oliver (in Ottawa) for pointing me to the bias list.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada So\u2026 I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about \u201cbias\u201d of late (\u201ca tendency or preference towards a particular perspective, ideology or result\u201d) and the not-so-nuanced role that it plays re: objectivity in this communication age\u2026 especially cognitive bias, for which Wikipedia offers an excellent resource list here. Thanks Chris Lee (an intern at Circle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,14,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16832,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/16832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}