BIAS
Unconscious prejudices affecting judgment
WATCH
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Coded Bias — Shalini Kantayya, 2020 · Documentary · Algorithmic bias in facial recognition and its real-world consequences.
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13th — Ava DuVernay, 2016 · Documentary · Racial bias embedded in the criminal justice system from the Constitution forward.
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Implicit Bias — Various, PBS Frontline · The science of unconscious bias and how it shapes decisions.
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Perception Gap — More in Common, 2019 · Documentary short · How bias distorts what we believe others think.
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The Persuaders — Frontline, 2004 · Documentary · How bias is exploited by marketing and political messaging.
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Bias — Robin Hauser, 2018 · Documentary · A filmmaker investigates her own unconscious bias in hiring and daily life.
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Remember the Titans — Boaz Yakin, 2000 · Film · Racial bias challenged through a newly integrated football team.
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Philadelphia — Jonathan Demme, 1993 · Film · Bias against gay men and AIDS patients inside the legal profession.
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Hidden Figures — Theodore Melfi, 2016 · Film · Racial and gender bias inside NASA; three women outperforming every expectation.
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Confirmation — Rick Famuyiwa, 2016 · Film · Anita Hill’s testimony and the bias that dismissed her.
LISTEN
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Hidden Brain — Shankar Vedantam · Every episode is essentially about bias; the flagship podcast on unconscious behavior.
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Thinking Allowed — Laurie Taylor · Sociology of bias and how social structures produce prejudiced thinking.
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Radiolab: Implicit Bias — WNYC · The science of the IAT test and what it actually measures.
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Code Switch — NPR · Bias across race, culture, and identity explored through journalism and lived experience.
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The Bias Podcast — Various · Bias in media, technology, and everyday decision-making.
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Freakonomics: Bias episodes — Stephen Dubner · Economic analysis of how bias shapes markets and behavior.
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Revisionist History — Malcolm Gladwell · Bias in how we remember, judge, and misunderstand the past.
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What’s Your Bias? — Various · Short-form explorations of specific biases and how to interrupt them.
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The Ezra Klein Show — NYT · Political and intellectual bias examined in long-form conversation.
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On the Media — WNYC · Media bias and how the news shapes what we believe is true.
READ
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Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman · The definitive map of cognitive bias from the Nobel laureate who studied it.
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Blindspot — Mahzarin Banaji & Anthony Greenwald · The science of hidden bias from the creators of the IAT test.
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The Enigma of Reason — Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber · Why human reasoning is built for arguing, not truth-seeking.
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Whistling Vivaldi — Claude Steele · Stereotype threat; how bias shapes performance and identity.
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Blink — Malcolm Gladwell · The power and peril of snap judgments; bias in split-second decisions.
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Biased — Jennifer Eberhardt · A social psychologist’s research on racial bias in policing and daily life.
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The Undoing Project — Michael Lewis · Kahneman and Tversky’s friendship and the discovery of cognitive bias.
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Algorithms of Oppression — Safiya Umoja Noble · Bias in search engines and what Google’s results reveal.
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Noise — Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony & Cass Sunstein · The random variation in human judgment that bias research often ignores.
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You Are Not So Smart — David McRaney · A humbling tour of the biases and delusions we all carry.
