The Confirmation Bias: Why It’s Hard to Change Your Mind

admin · Jun 6, 2013

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another gem from PsychBlog:
The Confirmation Bias: Why It’s Hard to Change Your Mind

People search for information that confirms their view of the world and ignore what doesn't fit.

In an uncertain world, people love to be right because it helps us make sense of things. Indeed some psychologists think it's akin to a basic drive.
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Admin2 · Jun 6, 2013

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BEN-HUR · Jun 6, 2013

Admin said: ↑

another gem from PsychBlog:
The Confirmation Bias: Why It’s Hard to Change Your Mind
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Can be applied to so many situations/topics. Can be particularly frustrating when you need to break certain beliefs within a clinic/consult setting - providing visual clear evidence is one way, whilst carefully exposing the fallacy of the belief...

Fight the bias:

The way to fight the confirmation bias is simple to state but hard to put into practice.

You have to try and think up and test out alternative hypothesis. Sounds easy, but it's not in our nature. It's no fun thinking about why we might be misguided or have been misinformed. It takes a bit of effort.

It's distasteful reading a book which challenges our political beliefs, or considering criticisms of our favourite film or, even, accepting how different people choose to live their lives.

Trying to be just a little bit more open is part of the challenge that the confirmation bias sets us. Can we entertain those doubts for just a little longer? Can we even let the facts sway us and perform that most fantastical of feats: changing our minds?
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Craig Payne · Apr 4, 2015

Here is a new post on confirmation bias from PsychBlog:
Confirmation Bias: How Intelligent People Develop Totally Incorrect Beliefs

I was tipped off to this post by a tweet from a 'barefooter' who has one of the strongest historys of confirmation bias I have seen in a while ... go figure!

Pod66 · Apr 6, 2015

One for you to ponder...."group think"

NewsBot · Feb 1, 2017

Another confirmation bias post:
Confirmation Bias: How Intelligent People Develop Totally Incorrect Beliefs

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