I know that. It's clear evidence that learning about it helps one. For my own reasons I didn't really like the Finland study. I'll do some looking. I do think one can get better at preventing being misled by the bias and also that some people are better at it for whatever reasons. I wonder however if those who are have actually made a specific conscious choice. And also I have a concern that to really get at confirmation bias one has to question things on a very deep level, to the degree that one ends up in a kind of very neutral worldview for a while, outside not just fringe paradigms and models but also mainstream ones.tillingborn wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:43 am There really is a ton of research on confirmation bias. Wikipedia is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias There are links to research papers at the bottom if you don't find what you are looking for in the article.
Yes, betting on a hypothesis and like a pit bull holding on to it regardless of the evidence has led to all sorts of inventions, successful businesses, happy marriages, postive paradigmatic changes and more. And then the bad stuff.Anyway, confirmation bias can drive people to greatness, and it can make them look like fools.
How one develops a heuristic for oneself is a challenge. And then a general heuristic for 'everybody' even more so.
As often as not, that will be because whoever reads your work will be seeing it through their own biases.Iwannaplato wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:19 pm...I find myself misinterpreted often, and make errors of interpretation myself.
[/quote]And today, more than at any earlier point in my lifetime, there is the team lens bias. You are either with those evil/insane/irrational people over there or you are with us. The bias that there are two teams, one is wrong, one is right and those are the choices.