Is Cognitive Bias Hampering Your Lab Communications?

 Is Cognitive Bias Hampering Your Lab Communications?

by Barry Fanning, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, The Andersons, ALMA Board Member

Lab managers communicate regularly with several functional groups within their organization. To a large extent the focus of our work is to provide data that help these folks make well-informed decisions to achieve their goals.

We all know that successful communication should be tuned to the perspective of the audience. In addition to these preferences, we need to understand the biases inherent in how people think and process information. These cognitive biases are essentially mental shortcuts that help people make decisions faster. Not necessarily better, but faster.

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