One type of bias that affects our view of the stories and news we come across is confirmation bias. This is when we favour ideas or beliefs that we already have rather than challenging them.

When setting recording levels on the cassette deck a standard cassette at a low bias setting should not peak higher than 0 VU. Chrome tapes at high bias setting can record a signal +3 db above 0 VU, ...

Watch the clip below to find out how this confirmation bias can affect what we believe. When we see a post that tells us exactly what we want to hear, we don’t always bother to check if it’s true.

Track bias refers to the way a track races and the perceived advantages or disadvantages it holds for certain competitors. On-pace bias: this type of bias will favour horses that settle on or near the ...

Subconscious biases are common in medicine because doctors and other health staff are humans who are prone to such errors. Cognitive biases are not necessarily caused by negative intentions ...

and it would be difficult to look at any one document from the experiment and put your finger on the bias, looking at the data in aggregate tells a different story. The types of feedback that the ...