Do politics make us irrational? - Jay Van Bavel
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Can someone’s political identity actually affect their ability to process information? The answer lies in a cognitive phenomenon known as partisanship. While identifying with social groups is an essential and healthy part of life, it can become a problem when the group’s beliefs are at odds with reality. So how can we recognize and combat partisanship? Jay Van Bavel shares helpful strategies.
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What can we do to reduce partisan bias in ourselves and others?
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Hekmat Attieh
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We can try to criticize every thought and belief we have, then identify which of them is a bias, and finally, we need to look them up using reliable references and books, or even the internet.
Discussing these biases with others will make it less awkward to share them and change the way we think about them to something more realistic and reasonable.
Kenneth Recinos
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Trying to create your own knowledge about the game and improve the sources of information that provide bad information about this.
Karime Santillan
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Explore and identify your own biases through implicit association testing or other means of self-analysis. Be aware, evaluate, and identify new ways to open our minds to new perspectives.
Harry Connerty
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What we can do to reduce partisan bias in ourselves and others is to improve communication channels and establish platforms to debate.
dragan vesovv
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We would need to improve communication channels and establish platforms to debate. In order to preserve appropriate and respectful dialogue, use guidelines and neutral facilitation. Another method would be to take advantage of opportunities to establish a functioning degree of trust.
Federico Angioni
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I think to reduce partisan bias we, as a population, have to increase our critical thinking. Critical thinking helps every one of us believe and understand how much to rely on every single news we pass by every day. For example, for a basical critical thinking, I think it is enough for us to follow those concepts:
Conceptualizing
Analyzing
Synthesizing
Evaluating
Matej Shteriev
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The most effective way to stop partisan bias is to use factual data from various sources and intake data from every viewpoint and objectively analyze it
Angela Hristov
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I think that a way to reduce this would be questioning our beliefs, checking facts and actual reliable information constantly and try to educate ourselves and others by looking from different perspectives on different issues.
Jona Kurtishi
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The key to reduce partisan bias is becoming more open minded about the world around us, and accenting facts as they are, not as we wish them to be.
Ljuben Serafimovski Miloshevski
Ljuben Serafimovski Miloshevski
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Improve communication channels and create forums for dialogue.
Use guidelines and neutral facilitation to maintain respectful interaction.
Take opportunities to build a working level of trust. Strengthen the non-polarized middle ('third side'). Encourage others who do not identify with any side to become more active as bridge-builders, voices of moderation, and advocates for stakeholders at risk.
