Critical Thinking Education and Debiasing (AILACT Essay Prize Winner 2013)

There are empirical grounds to doubt the effectiveness of a common and intuitive approach to teaching debiasing strategies in critical thinking courses. We summarize some of the grounds before suggesting a broader taxonomy of debiasing strategies. This four-level taxonomy enables a useful diagnosis...

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Published in:Informal logic 2014-01, Vol.34 (4), p.341
Main Authors: Beaulac, Guillaume, Kenyon, Tim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bias
biases
Critical thinking
debiasing
education
nudges
Taxonomy
Teaching methods
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Summary:There are empirical grounds to doubt the effectiveness of a common and intuitive approach to teaching debiasing strategies in critical thinking courses. We summarize some of the grounds before suggesting a broader taxonomy of debiasing strategies. This four-level taxonomy enables a useful diagnosis of biasing factors and situations, and illuminates more strategies for more effective bias mitigation located in the shaping of situational factors and reasoning infrastructure. The question, we contend, then becomes how best to teach the construction and use of such infrastructures.
ISSN:0824-2577
0824-2577
2293-734X
DOI:10.22329/il.v34i4.4203