# bias
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38:02Truth or Lie: Do we all love an underdog?Al Elliott: Yeah Leanne Elliott: Okay, cool. I'll go back and see if we can do that. I didn't know the answer to that. I wasn't able in my kind of my position, not as close to the frontline and in my emotional state to gEP 314 · 30 Jun 2026·truth or lie· 38:02–52:3047:39The 'Hiring Like Me' TrapAlexis Zahner: No notes. Al Elliott: Thank you so much. No notes. Okay, so onto question number 3. It's about hiring, whether you're hiring wrong or not. When I started my business, I hired people just like me. I'm sure EP 292 · 14 Apr 2026·news roundup· 47:39–52:5833:15What's stopping bias at the filter stage?Leanne Elliott: What's to stop a hiring manager filtering for, I'd only want to employ women, I only want to employ men, I don't want anybody who's neurodiverse, I don't want— you know, how do you— is there any way to prEP 287 · 26 Mar 2026·interview· 33:15–37:0240:57The return-to-office bias — leaders see what they want to seeAl Elliott: Well, if they have, they've missed gold and also they won't hear you say sorry. So they'll just be blaming you for the rest of the day, weren't they? Honestly, that is genuinely, that's exactly the kind of anEP 283 · 12 Mar 2026·interview· 40:57–45:4621:40Truth or Lie: Are tall people really more successful?Al Elliott: It can Leanne Elliott: But come back Al Elliott: Yeah, come back. Definitely come back because Nudge isn't as good as thisEP 238 · 7 Oct 2025·truth or lie· 21:40–34:5222:36Unkempt employees and the bias we let run riotEnya Doyle: You've really got something against older people, Al. Are you, are you aging badly? Like, what's going on? You can tell me Al Elliott: That'd be great to have you on tape being really offensive to me Enya DoyEP 175 · 27 Feb 2025·interview· 22:36–34:1027:49Affinity bias explainedAl Elliott: Now, hold on a minute. Mandy just used a term there I'd never heard before, affinity bias. What does that mean, Leigh? Leanne Elliott: In the simplest way of putting it, affinity bias means we like people likEP 53 · 24 Aug 2023·interview· 27:49–33:0120:51Overcoming bias in business & investmentSarah Chen Spellings: I believe women need to be recognized and given opportunities and earning those opportunities equally, politically, socially, and economically, right? And that goes— those are broad statements into EP 28 · 1 Mar 2023·panel interview· 20:51–28:30
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