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Dr Sabina Brennan and fellow neuroscientist Dr Pragya Agarwal place a multitude of human biases under the microscope and unpick unconscious bias using insights from brain science.
This is Tim Urban's Ted Talk on procrastination that Pragya mentioned during the show
This is the height graph with the biased scale that we spoke about in the episode
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, and a freelance journalist and author of Sway, Unravelling Unconscious Bias
Her New Book Wish We Knew What To Say: Talking With Children about Race is out 15th October 2020
She is a winner of Diverse Wisdom award from Hay House, was named as one of the 100 influential women in social enterprise in the UK, and one of 50 people creating change in the UK-India corridor on the High and Mighty list.
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Dr Sabina Brennan and fellow neuroscientist Dr Pragya Agarwal place a multitude of human biases under the microscope and unpick unconscious bias using insights from brain science.
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Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, and a freelance journalist and author of Sway, Unravelling Unconscious Bias
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