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How Strong Is Your Cognitive Bias? [Self-Assessment Test]

Discover your cognitive bias with our easy self-assessment test designed to help you understand your decision-making process.

What is bias-aware judgment?

Bias-aware judgment accepts that cognitive and motivational biases can influence anyone and uses process safeguards, outside views, disconfirming evidence, and review rather than confidence in personal objectivity.

See whether your decision process makes your own bias—not only other people’s—easier to detect and constrain.

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I assume my own judgment can be biased even when my reasoning feels objective.
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What does bias-aware judgment mean?

Bias-aware judgment accepts that cognitive and motivational biases can influence anyone and uses process safeguards, outside views, disconfirming evidence, and review rather than confidence in personal objectivity.

Why it matters at work

People often recognise bias more readily in others than themselves. Memorising bias names is not enough; better judgment comes from changing how evidence, alternatives, dissent, and decisions are structured.

What this assessment measures

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Bias humility

Treating personal objectivity as a hypothesis rather than a special exemption.

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Evidence & challenge

Seeking base rates, alternatives, dissent, and evidence capable of changing the conclusion.

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Decision safeguards

Using criteria, independent input, records, and review to reduce predictable distortion.

How to interpret your score

Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.

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Build your bias-aware judgment foundation

Your answers identify situations where a small, visible practice could make this capability more dependable.

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A developing bias-aware judgment pattern

You use this capability in some conditions. Focus on the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.

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A strong bias-aware judgment pattern

Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from people affected.

Methodology & limits

Designed for reflection, not diagnosis

The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.

Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.

Research that informed this page

Emily Pronin, Daniel Y. Lin, and Lee Ross (2002), The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

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