Stine: Having bias is a good thing, why are we scared of it?

Recently, I have been on the receiving end of quite a few comments that follow a similar structure: “You are biased.” It got me thinking about how we have been conditioned to believe that having a bias or a set of biases is somehow wrong or incorrect. Biases, in fact, are a good thing.

For tens of thousands of years, human beings have relied on biases for our very survival. Obviously, early humans had a bias against straying too far from a consistent source of water, or a bias against kicking a water buffalo for laughs.

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