Title: Course Review: Unconscious Bias (LinkedIn Learning)
Slug: course-review-unconscious-bias-linkedin-learning
Date: 2021-10-26 21:00:00
Author: Kartones
Lang: en
Tags: Reviews, Courses, Soft Skills
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Description: This blog post reviews the LinkedIn Learning course on unconscious bias, highlighting the 5 biases covered. It suggests that the course could be longer and more in-depth, but overall provides quick and interesting learning. The post also includes a list of additional cognitive biases.


### Review

[Unconscious Bias](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/unconscious-bias/) is a small but interesting ~20 minutes course about some biases that often get triggered unawaredly and we might not even know we have. We'll learn about 5 biases:

- Affinity bias
- Halo bias
- Perception bias
- Confirmation bias
- Groupthink


It's a tiny but appealing teaching, could be longer and go more in depth to be better, but on the other hand is a quick learning pill.


### Notes

To complement, I'll leave here some notes I had about the topic, mostly a list I gathered some time ago (sadly din't noted from where):

- **Anchoring Bias**: People are over-reliant on first piece of information they hear.
- **Availability heuristic**: People overestimate the importance of information that is available to them.
- **Bandwagon effect**: The propbability of one person adopting a belief increases based on the number of people who holad that belief. (groupthink)
- **Blind-spot bias**: Failing to recognize your own cognitive biases is a bias in itself. People notice cognitive and motivational biases much more in others than in themselves.
- **Choice-supportive bias**: When you choose something, you tend to feld positive about it, even if that choice has flaws.
- **Clustering illusion**: The tendency to see patterns in random events.
- **Confirmation bias**: We tend to listen only to information that confirms our preconceptions.
- **Conservatism bias**: Where people favor evidence or information that has emerged. (we are slow to accept)
- **Information bias**: Tendency to seek information when it does not affect action. (more information is not always better)
- **Ostrich effect**: Decision to ignore dangerous or negative information.
- **Outcome bias**: Judging a decision based on the outcome, not on how the decision was made in the moment.
- **Overconfidence**: Too confident about our abilities, which leads to taking greater risks.
- **Placebo effect**: When simply believing that something will have a certain effect on you causes it to have that effect.
- **Pro-innovation bias**: When a proponent of an innovation tends to overvalue its usefulness and undervalue its limitations.
- **Recency**: Tendency to weight the latest information more heavily than older data.
- **Salience**: Tendency to focus on the most easily recognizable features.
- **Selective perception**: Allowing expectations to influence how we percieve the world.
- **Stereotyping**: Expecting a group or person to have certain qualities without having real information about the person. (we tend to overuse and abuse it)
- **Survivorship bias**: Focusing only on surviving examples, causing us to misjudge a situation.
- **Zero-risk bias**: We love certainty, even if it's counterproductive.


And also I'll leave a link to [Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases), which includes a lot more.