Master Cognitive Biases and Improve Your Critical Thinking

Description

In this course, you will :

• Understand what cognitive biases are and why they're so important for critical thinking..
• Understand the concept of "mindware" as a component of improving critical thinking and reasoning..
• Understand how ignoring cognitive biases can open the door to disastrous decisions, reduced performance and social injustice..
• Understand why many businesses and industries are offering cognitive bias training to their managers and employees..
• Be able to describe several important cognitive biases -- such as confirmation bias, pattern-seeking, anchoring, and hindsight bias -- and give examples that illustrate how they operate..
• Understand what "debiasing" is, and be able to describe several effective strategies for reducing the harmful effects of cognitive biases..
• Explain why many businesses and organizations resist implementing debiasing strategies..