Bias number six is called anthropomorphism. This is a cognitive bias that human beings use to make judgements about their environment.

Specifically, human beings use their own experience as the basis of judgement for the experience of another non-human entity. 

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Bias number five is called anthropocentrism. This is a cognitive bias that governs the way human beings relate to their environment.

Anthropocentrism, or homocentrism, is the belief that human beings are the most important entities in the Universe. Many believe it is this bias that...

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Bias number four is called the anchoring bias, also known as focalism. It is another cognitive bias that affects the way people make decisions.

The anchoring bias describes a person’s tendency to depend too heavily on a certain piece of information offered to make subsequent decisions. Once the mind is set on the anchoring piece of information, all future decision-making processes refer back to this anchored thought.

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Bias number three is called the ambiguity bias, a cognitive bias that affects the way people make decisions.

The ambiguity effect bias explains the human tendency to avoid risk by...

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Bias number two is known as the agent detection bias. This bias belongs to a group of biases that affect decision-making, beliefs and behaviours in human beings.

The agent detection bias is believed to have formed as a survival strategy.

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Bias number one is known as the actor-observer bias. This bias belongs to a group of biases known as social or attributional biases as it can be found most often in relationships between people.

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The world is inundated with bias.

Whether you’re talking about identity politics, health, religion or the weather, you’re almost certainly expressing your views from a bias of some sort.

So, what is bias?

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