Blind Trust

The Hidden Bias That Makes Smart, Careful People Miss What's Right in Front of Them

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Simon Blackwood

Verlag:

Readers First Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36876853

EAN: 9781804281871

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 15.09.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 31.50

Beschreibung

In Blind Trust, author Simon Blackwood explores the cognitive mechanism that allows intelligent,. well-intentioned professionals to look directly at evidence and still get it wrong. Rather than offer generic. advice about avoiding bias, this book traces confirmation bias. -the tendency to read ambiguous information. as proof of what you already believe-through nine meticulously researched case studies spanning fraud,. forensics, hiring, medicine, and personal judgment. Drawing on behavioral psychology and documented real-world failures, Blackwood reveals how the same. pattern surfaces whether someone is analyzing a financial scheme, matching a fingerprint, or reading a. colleague's motives. The mind that already holds a belief does not process new evidence neutrally; it bends that. evidence, often unconsciously, toward whatever confirms the belief already in place. Readers will discover:. -. How the Madoff fraud survived for decades despite facts sitting on regulators' desks. -. Why FBI examiners confidently matched the wrong fingerprint in the Madrid bombing investigation. -. The way a hiring manager's first impression distorts every answer. that follows. -. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance and why contradicting evidence gets avoided or. reinterpreted. -. A practical four-question protocol for reading evidence with fresh eyes. Blind Trust provides a structured countermeasure against self-deception in real time. By learning to recognize. the specific shape confirmation bias takes in each domain, and by applying the protocol Blackwood builds. across eight chapters, readers gain a rare skill: the ability to see what the evidence actually shows, not just what. prior belief has already prepared them to see.

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Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Simon Blackwood

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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