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Almost anything can result in a bias. Prior experience, preconceptions, cultural background and paradigm, personal preference and personality, access to knowledge. Everyone has biases and the number one way in which we can defeat these biases is to recognize them within ourselves, so a major contributor is the person's ability to do just that.

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