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Cognitive Bias - As Bad As Our Biases Would Have Us Believe?

Biases Over the course of my work as an educator, often with very clever and experienced practitioners I have heard several saying the words; “but that might just be my bias”. These words have made me curious and so I thought it might be useful to explore what biases are. Research in human bias really started in the early 70s. The basis of this research was to explore why humans, and in particular humans who were seen as expert, have made judgements that have led to very poor outcomes. This exploration has often led to identifying that available knowledge and evidence was missed or simply ignored by practitioners who relied on work-based heuristics (rules of thumb) applied because of cognitive bias. This outcome of this research suggests that we have the capacity to become slaves to our biases and tacit heuristics unless we spend more time engaged in thoughtful deliberation. In essence, Heuristics and Biases (H&B) are typically presented as being 'bad' for human deci
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Coaching u6 Children

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A few days ago I reacted to a tweet offered by  Jean Côté‏  around key coaching aspects for children, I’ve copied this below: In this tweet Jean refers to the photo of a slide that suggests there are no key aspects (I'm going to say principles from here) for coaching u6 children. I clearly don’t agree with this as is clear from my response. The issue with Twitter though, is that it is easy to throw stones but without then taking responsibility for throwing them. It is also easy for them to be too critical (and maybe a little unnecessarily rude – damn the reactive reptilian brain!). Indeed, twitter rarely accounts for context, and there is every chance the tweet removes too much of the context that the slide was presented in (my guess is that it has). All the same, I still don't think the message is particularly helpful, I stand by that bit. Consequently, I thought I would offer a view on some (not all, this is only a blog!) principles that I am aware of from lite
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