Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick May Contain Lies: How to See the World with Clarity with Alex Edmans
Sep 22, 2025
Join Alex Edmans, a finance professor at London Business School and author of 'May Contain Lies', as he delves into decision-making and the quirks of human bias. Discover how confirmation bias and black-and-white thinking distort our views. Alex unveils his Ladder of Mis-Inference and offers practical strategies to combat bias, like imagining opposing outcomes and embracing critical feedback. He also emphasizes recognizing AI as a tool to enhance, not replace, human insight. A must-listen for anyone seeking clarity in a noisy world!
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Postpone Decisions To Elicit Objections
- Alfred Sloy asked in a meeting if anyone objected to his plan and, hearing silence, postponed the decision.
- He used delay to let people surface concerns instead of accepting silence as assent.
Two Core Biases Drive Misinformation
- Two biases explain most misinformation: confirmation bias and black-and-white thinking.
- Confirmation skews those with prior views; black-and-white skews those without priors into binary conclusions.
Three Faces Of Confirmation Bias
- Confirmation bias appears as selective search, biased interpretation, and naive acceptance.
- These forms explain why people only consume, distort, or uncritically share supportive information.
