Let's talk about bias!!!

[paulpablo]

So what are your thoughts on bias?

Some things to consider...

How does society as a whole tend towards biased thinking or not?

How do you recognise bias in you own life? How does one ride themselves of bias? Is it an exercise of will or simply something you learn (free will vs determinism)?

Is bias a myth? If it is, what is our (your) role in coming to grips with being wrong (or at least incorrect) or not? Can one justify never being wrong from a theoretical standpoint? 

What would be required to believe (heh) that one does not have any biases?

Is it easier for you to separate seeing bias in others or yourself more?

How does our perception tie into our biases? 

Are our tools to measure the universe fallible due to bias? Why or why not?

Yeh I think bias is pretty much inescapable.

I try and recognize my own bias, when I think of an opinion I'll try and rethink it and restate it from a few different angles.
An example of me noticing bias is when two of my favourite youtubers have a disagreement about something I tend to get this feeling, which is an instant, instinctive type of feeling, of now two people who I thought were on the same team as me are in two different tribes and I have to decide which to join from here. 
 
The answer of how I try and stop that within myself is when I get that kind of feeling I try and purposefully focus on what I disagree with in relation to that team or person who I feel I can relate to.  I do it often on here.  I'm on team atheist but I think on a forum like this it's probably more important to talk about disagreements than agreements, get your arguments challenged without being afraid of being fired or punched in the face or all those other things that happen in real life.

I don't think you can rid yourself of bias, I think all bias stems from a very primitive bias towards your own DNA/offspring and spreads out from there to include lovers, tribes, cities, countries, ideas, religions, political parties and so on.  Generally what we identify with, the things we relate to, get attached to, we want those to win.   

It's apparent to me that you're just addressing bias in the sense of beliefs and ideas but I think it stems from that primitive parental bias in mammals and I see it as there being two sides to that coin.  It's probably been essential and still is in some way, that we're bias towards people who we see as our own, but it's also probably responsible for pretty much every single war and murder that ever happened.

I think it probably takes more time to see my own bias than other people's.  

I don't really get the last question about a measurement of the universe.