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Law Practice

Apr. 6, 2023

Matters of opinion or taste are not facts

The ability to recognize that your opinion, your perspective, your taste, and your truth is not an objective verifiable and unquestionable fact requires self-awareness.

Mark B. Baer

Mark works as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant and teaches a course on implicit bias.

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My last column contained an excerpt from "Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment," by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein, which included the following sentence:

"Matters of judgment differ from matters of opinion or taste, in which unresolved differences ar...

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