Cognitive Bias and Democracy: Difference between revisions

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At just about every level of American society, if a person is asked: "How do you feel about foreign influence in our political process?" Most people, if not everyone, will answer that there is no place in American politics for foreign influence. Public officials, activists, and journalists would probably be the most forceful in this opinion. Further, most people would agree that foreign influence in politics needs to be prevented and and if found it ought to be stopped.

Background

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.[1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behaviour in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality. -- Wikipedia

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+At just about every level of American society, if a person is asked: "How do you feel about foreign influence in our political process?" Most people, if not everyone, will answer that '''''there is no place in American politics for foreign influence'''.'' Public officials, activists, and journalists would probably be the most forceful in this opinion. Further, most people would agree that foreign influence in politics needs to be prevented and and if found it ought to be stopped.
 == Background ==
 A '''cognitive bias''' is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.[1] Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behaviour in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality. -- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias Wikipedia]
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-*At just about every level of American society, if a person is asked: "How do you feel about foreign influence in our political process?" Most people, if not everyone, will answer that '''''there is no place in American politics for foreign influence'''.'' Public officials, activists, and journalists would probably be the most forceful in this opinion. Further, most people would agree that foreign influence in politics needs to be prevented and and if found it ought to be stopped.
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