One of the most pernicious aspects of having a human brain is that it can fool itself in myriad ways. This little song (typos forgiven in the captions) provides a nice roundup of cognitive bias — its types, its meaning, and its problems.

Learn it, live it, love it.

Kent Anderson

Kent Anderson

Kent Anderson is the CEO of RedLink and RedLink Network, a past-President of SSP, and the founder of the Scholarly Kitchen. He has worked as Publisher at AAAS/Science, CEO/Publisher of JBJS, Inc., a publishing executive at the Massachusetts Medical Society, Publishing Director of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. Opinions on social media or blogs are his own.

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Thanks, Kent, my son is taking the AP Psych test this week and I have to be grateful to this teacher who dramatizes the subject so musically! Mark

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