Burden of Proof Worksheet
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Have you ever seen a plane crash in a movie and then felt anxious about flying? You may have been experiencing availability bias (more commonly known as the availability heuristic). In this video, I walk you through the problems that it can cause, and how to use critical thinking to overcome it.
This worksheet is designed to accompany my YouTube video on availability bias, where I explain how people can overestimate the likelihood of an event if they can easily think of an example (i.e. seeing a plane crash on the news and thinking your plane will crash). Together with this worksheet, students will learn how to identify and avoid the availability bias. The first set of questions follows Harvard's "Project Zero" thinking routine 'Take Note', to help kids focus on the key ideas of the video while considering things they'd like to know more about. The questions then move from simple recall to more complex tasks such as considering the relevance of data, and reflecting on their own examples of the availability bias. |
Click below to download the worksheet from Google Drive.