Debiasing techniques
Use various debiasing techniques in order to help you account for the influence of the curse of knowledge.
- Visualize the perspective of the people that you are communicating with or use self-distancing language.
- You could also slow down your reasoning process and improve your decision-making environment, which will enable you to think in a clearer, less-biased manner.
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