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Blind Spots, bias projection and health care misconceptions

Podcast: Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance · Scientific Health: Education and Human Performance

Opublikowano: 2026-10-22

Echo chambers don't need algorithms. They need only a closed loop: a group of people who get their information from the same places, reinforce one another's conclusions, and rarely hear from anyone who would challenge them. That describes plenty of social media. It also describes plenty of classrooms. In health science education, those classroom echo chambers often form around one of the most personal subjects there is: what we eat, how we move, and what we think a healthy body looks like. Why does a professor's blind spot and bias matter? Well, let's talk about...