Reading the chapter from Blindspot, I was suddenly … very afraid of myself. While I had an awareness that we often are rather untruthful, it never hit me how this jeopardizes our ability to obtain truth. How can we trust ourselves, or others, or the very information we collect if the people who write them are a mess of subtle biases?

The section on the reliability of surveys hit me the most, as recently I took part in this psychology study thing with some heavy survey questions on my behaviors and sense of self. But now I question, can I really grasp who I even am? I know plenty of people who define themselves in ways I don’t agree with, so then, would other people’s perceptions of me be more accurate? But they have their own jumble of mini shortcuts and stereotyping and things happening too!! Moral of the story, I really gotta be suspicious of everything now …