Bias Quiz

When I walk into a meeting full of people that I don't know, the first thing I do is to scan the crowd for someone that looks like me and has my same culture so that I can sit by them. Can you identify the BIAS I am exhibiting?

• Confirmation BIAS

• Blind Spot Bias

• Affinity Bias

• Negativity Bias

Bias means _____________ one view over another view.

• hypothetically

• favoring

• tantalizing

• hosting

Which of the following is an example of affinity bias?

• Promoting somebody who is hard working and has the skills required
• Not hiring someone because they are young
• Hiring somebody because they remind you of yourself

Quentin doesn't understand that he's being bias. What is this an example of?

• Affinity Bias

• Blind Spot Bias

• Hypocritic Bias

• Prejudice Bias

The tendency to only watch news programs that support your views is an example of what?

• Confirmation Bias

• Anchoring Bias

• Choice Supportive Bias

• The Bandwagon Effect

Searching for sources that confirm what you already believe is an example of:

• Confirmation Bias

• Anchoring Bias

• Choice Supportive Bias

• The Bandwagon Effect

Relying on the first piece of information we receive about a topic

• Anchoring Bias

• Confirmation Bias

• Availability Bias

• Blind Spot Bias

When you call out someone else's bias while minimizing or ignoring your own, you are practicing...

• The Bandwagon Effect

• Choice Supportive Bias

• Blind Spot Bias

• Availability Bias

Focusing on negative events at the expense of positive or neutral events

• Negativity bias
• Bias by omission
• blind spot bias
• Anchoring bias

Imagine you went on a wonderful date, and during the date there was a time that ya'll had to wait in line forever. That part sucked, but the rest of the date went flawless. Your date only talks about how ya'll had to wait long, and doesn't discuss the nice parts of the date. This phenomenon is an example of ...............

• traumatic bias.

• phobia effect.

• negativity bias.

• attentional bias.