Posts Tagged ‘filter’

Information Pollution Alert! Living with Data Smog

We are a nation awash in data smog. This is more than just information overload -- it's not just that there's too much information out there for one person to adequately encompass, it's that there's too much data out there to even make out the information clearly, let alone to evaluate and act on that information.What's worse is that unlike normal smog, which is the unintentional byproduct of our need… Continue reading

November 10 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: bias, data-smog, filter, information, information-overload, news, science, truth | 16 comments»

What Are Your Filters?

Whammo! You didn’t see that coming, did you?Why is it that, despite all our planning, we sometimes get caught by surprise, totally unprepared, with our pants down as it were? I mean, we’re smart folks, right? How come sometimes we just don’t see stuff coming?The answer is, much of the time, that we don’t see everything clearly because we don’t see a lot of things at all. We process the… Continue reading

August 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: filter, gender, interaction, people, perception, race | 6 comments»