Cognitive Bias

A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that occurs when people are processing and interpreting information in the world around them and affects the decisions and judgments that they make.

Because we’re not computers, we’re all victims of this phenomenon; we have emotions, personal agendas, limited attention spans, peer group pressures, life events that shape our beliefs, and so forth.  Yet some of these are more vicious and less defensible than others.

For example, Fox News has identified a demographic segment of the U.S. population that is especially susceptible to poor thinking, making it particularly vulnerable, and it’s taking full advantage of those weaknesses.

You and I, for example, may have trouble eliminating some our personal prejudices in our thinking.  However, we couldn’t, even we tried, believe the entire U.S. judicial system is corrupt and that it falsely upheld the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, where the true winner was Donald Trump.