In this great video, How You Really Make Decisions made by BBC Horizon in 2016, there was an experiment carried out.
The subjects of the experiment involved a mixture of people, those who were trained intelligence assets and those who were novices. Both were asked to correctly identify who the terrorists were in a mock terrorist attack scenario.
The subjects were asked to thwart a terrorist attack upon a made-up city. They were asked to analyze a wealth of data from all sources such as social media, government agencies, emergency services and mobile phones.
When the subjects were finally asked to correctly identify the terrorists, eleven out of the twelve subjects gave the wrong answer. The eleven who incorrectly identified the terrorists were the trained intelligence assets. The only subject who correctly identified the terrorists was the novice.
What this experiment demonstrated was that experts can also be affected by confirmation bias.
The implications for this are enormous and affect every professional field within society.
We need to look at this unfolding situation with Dr. Shiva, Dr. Bhuttar and Robert Kennedy Jr from every conceivable angle in order to put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
We also need to be open to the possibility that we could be missing the point somewhere and if we are, to make adjustments along the way, much like an astronaut heading to the moon needs to make continuous adjustments to the vehicle due to the affects of gravitational pull. (For those who don't believe that we went to the moon, it is just an analogy folks, it is the best one I have for the moment!)
My apologies in advance for the link. This was the only link I could find. The BBC have a worldwide copyright on this material.
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