Hello, Chris. It was very thoughtful that you mentioned biases are exist among the intelligence professionals. Intelligence professionals’ job is to provide actionable intelligence to top decision makers without prejudice. Due to everyone has different cultural backgrounds they lead to predictably faulty judgments known as cognitive biases. According to CIA website, Cognitive biases are mental errors caused by our simplified information processing strategies. It is important to distinguish cognitive biases from other forms of bias, such as cultural bias, organizational bias, or bias that results from one's own self-interest. In other words, a cognitive bias does not result from any emotional or intellectual predisposition toward a certain judgment,
