The most effective check against them, as Kahneman says, is from the outside: Others can perceive our errors more readily than we can. And “slow-thinking organizations,” as he puts it, can institute policies that include the monitoring of individual decisions and predictions.
Having others to correct you and listen to what you say just in case your words become overly biased is a great way to prevent spreading fake information around to others.
Confirmation bias shows up most blatantly in our current political divide, where each side seems unable to allow that the other side is right about anything.
Instead of trying to see the other side, people are constantly only finding things or only seeing things that support their belief due to confirmation bias.
The gambler’s fallacy makes us absolutely certain that, if a coin has landed heads up five times in a row, it’s more likely to land tails up the sixth time. In fact, the odds are still 50-50. Optimism bias leads us to consistently underestimate the costs and the duration of basically every project we undertake.
No matter what the outcome is or how many times in a row a coin has landed, the outcome will always be 50-50 but for most people (including myself) we underestimate the probability in order to favor one side over the other for our own benefits in our head.
From the very beginning, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an “infodemic.” Overwhelmed by uncertainty and confined in their homes, people obsessively searched for information. At the same time, malign actors multiplied the production of fake news, conspiracy theories, and manipulated information on an ad hoc basis
Many people during this pandemic didn't know who to believe and trust so that led them to continuously search for information, news sources, social media, etc. This led to a massive increase in fake news and misinformation spread through the public because many people believed the first things they saw which sometimes were not accurate or correct.
Many, including Germany’s Christian Drosten, France’s Jérôme Salomon, Italy’s Walter Ricciardi, and the United States’ Anthony Fauci, have become household names.
This serves true in my house because during the whole pandemic and especially during the 2020 presidential election, Anthony Fauci's name was brought up almost everyday on the TV as my family and I watched the news during breakfast/dinner. Both good news and bad news followed his name, some information true and others were fake which shows how easily the public can be misinformed due to the news.
Personal and civil liberties — such as freedom of movement, freedom of enterprise, and freedom of assembly — have been severely restricted.
During the entire COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a number of groups of people that have protested against these restrictions placed upon the public for the safety of everyone. I understand that people want the right to their freedom but they need to know that this is for their safety and the safety of others around them so they shouldn't be protesting against something that was put into place to keep them safe.