We suggest undertaking this search for biases neither before nor after the decision is made, but in real time. Of course, people are rarely aware of their own biases when they are being misled by them. This lack of awareness is itself a known bias, the bias blind spot. People often recognize biases more easily in others than they do in themselves. We suggest that observers can be trained to spot, in real time, the diagnostic signs that one or several familiar biases are affecting someone else’s decisions or recommendations.
