No amount of bias elimination training can educate a judge to forget about their life experiences, assumptions, personal beliefs, and opinions.
Our ability to put ourselves in the shoes of others and imagine how they perceive us is a powerful tool for facilitating social cohesion in public places though, of course, people's perceptions may often be distorted and influenced by their life experiences, assumptions and prejudices.
Like all biases, this fear is mostly due to my personal experience and assumptions.
And she issued a coded warning to the Corbynistas not to merely preach to the converted by "confining ourselves to those whose experience or assumptions mirror our own".
"It's looking at the extent to which a police officer's general prior experience and assumptions are relevant... in contrast to their actual knowledge and observations of the person they want to detain".
In my experience, these assumptions are wrong.
"Regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up," the president said.
In team meetings, we attempted to make our various worldviews, life experience, and assumptions explicit, and to examine how these might influence our hermeneutics.
I am pleased that Kerner and Völzke (1) believe, based on their experience and assumptions, that the death rate from hypoglycemia in their patients with type 1 diabetes is lower than in the published literature.
And if you don't do this, if you have somehow inhibited or buried the experience, the assumption was that you would pay in the long run".
