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Khan Academy: Cognitive Biases: The Gi Joe Fallacy

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In this video, Laurie Santos (Yale University) discusses why knowing about our cognitive biases is not enough to overcome them. She'll introduce a new cognitive error known as the G.I. Joe Fallacy, the tendency for our biases to stick around even when we should know better. [3:16]

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behavior, bias, logic
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judgement, khan academy, khan academy: cognitive biases: the gi joe fallacy, reasoning, social cognition, thinking
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional