– Thinking Critically About How We Process Information”
The material this week considered the role that perceptions and biases play in influencing decision-making and critical thinking within intelligence
analysis. As you saw our internal cognitive processes have a direct impact on how we think about and process information, for better or for worse. It's
important to point out that these processes do not just impact intelligence collectors and analysts, but also policy makers who have received
completed intelligence products.
- Different kinds of biases and information processing errors that humans are prone too.
- Discuss several techniques that are meant to help us critically evaluate information
- How can our perceptions and biases impact the different techniques discussed?
- In our internal brain battle, will these techniques always work, or can situations arise where bias takes hold?
- Are there any examples that you can point to from history where bias has impacted decision making that has made use of any of the decisionmaking techniques
discussed this week?
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