Stage 5 Critical Thinking

Receive and understand assessment task

What is bias?

Kinds of bias:

• Confirmation bias
• The bandwagon effect
• Optimism bias
• Pessimism bias
• Status quo bias
• The appeal to novelty fallacy
• Self-serving bias
• The clustering illusion
• Social desirability bias

Divide the biases among class groups.

• Find a video explaining the bias
• Write a 1-2 sentence explanation of the bias, for everyone’s notes.

Watch the videos and write the notes