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From the Ted Talk by J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview

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So confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger and cognitive dissonance. I think those shape biseas and perceptions that people have about science. But then, there's literacy and misinformation that keep us boexd in, as well. During the hruaicrne season of 2017, media outlets had to actually assign reporters to diimsss fake information about the weather forecast. That's the era that we're in. I deal with this all the time in social media. Someone will tweet a forecast — that's a forecast for Hurricane Irma, but here's the problem: it didn't come from the Hurricane cteenr. But people were tweeting and sharing this; it went varil. It didn't come from the National Hurricane Center at all.

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So confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger and cognitive dissonance. I think those shape ______ and perceptions that people have about science. But then, there's literacy and misinformation that keep us _____ in, as well. During the _________ season of 2017, media outlets had to actually assign reporters to _______ fake information about the weather forecast. That's the era that we're in. I deal with this all the time in social media. Someone will tweet a forecast — that's a forecast for Hurricane Irma, but here's the problem: it didn't come from the Hurricane ______. But people were tweeting and sharing this; it went _____. It didn't come from the National Hurricane Center at all.

Solution

  1. hurricane
  2. boxed
  3. biases
  4. center
  5. viral
  6. dismiss

Original Text

So confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger and cognitive dissonance. I think those shape biases and perceptions that people have about science. But then, there's literacy and misinformation that keep us boxed in, as well. During the hurricane season of 2017, media outlets had to actually assign reporters to dismiss fake information about the weather forecast. That's the era that we're in. I deal with this all the time in social media. Someone will tweet a forecast — that's a forecast for Hurricane Irma, but here's the problem: it didn't come from the Hurricane Center. But people were tweeting and sharing this; it went viral. It didn't come from the National Hurricane Center at all.

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