text: Secondly, asking more than one person for advice can lower the amount of bias you hear. For example, let's say that you are buying a pet and are thinking about getting a dog but aren't a hundred percent sure about if you want one, so you ask your friend if you should get one. If your friend doesn't like dogs then they may say that dogs are horrible pets and that you shouldn't get one so you change your mind and don't get one. If you instead ask a group of people then you can hear multiple opinions which usually lowers the level of bias and gives you a general consensus instead. If you hear five people say that they believe dogs are good pets versus one person saying that they think dogs are bad pets then you can pretty safely assume that dogs are at least OK as pets. This is another reason why I believe it's beneficial to hear more than one person's opinion.