# A poll for GD, is there interest in doing a series of GD's about bias?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 3, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-gd-is-there-interest-in-doing-a-series-of-gds-about-bias/657393 "2013-05-03T07:35:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-gd-is-there-interest-in-doing-a-series-of-gds-about-bias/657393/1 "2013-05-03T07:35:44Z")

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I am considering starting a series of Threads in GD regarding Bias

> **[List of cognitive biases](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases)**
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> Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm and/or rationality in judgment. They are often studied in psychology, sociology and behavioral economics.
> Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research, there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them. Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases, which provides a classification of biases by their common generative mechanism (such as noisy...

Essentially one thread per week or so per Bias on the list. (maybe not every single one of them but a lot of them)  
The goal is to both educate and explore the role of Bias on this board and in our lives.  
Since this would be an undertaking of some effort I would like to see if there is support before I start. I would be willing to post most if not all of the threads or more than willing to let others start threads on the various Biases as well.

(poll Inc.)

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**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-gd-is-there-interest-in-doing-a-series-of-gds-about-bias/657393/2 "2013-05-03T07:38:33Z")

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and then…I botched my first poll. Can a mod fix this? basically I just wanted a yes/no type poll to see what kind of interest there is. That and perhaps move it to GD?