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Confirmation Bias Explained

ThoughtMonkey takes us through why Confirmation Bias exists, where it presents itself and what we can do about it.

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Why do you believe what you do?

It’s not as if pooling resources and having a conversation would result in one side convincing the other – we wouldn’t have had centuries of religious conflict if things were so simple.

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Implicit Bias Explicitly Debunked

Even if you think you’re unprejudiced, you’re probably wrong. Unconsciously, you’re rife with bias, you bigot, and you need to be re-educated.

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Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is a person’s tendency to favor information that confirms their assumptions, preconceptions or hypotheses whether these are actually and independently true or not.

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The Rational Being

As humans we are looked upon as the most rational beings on the planet.

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One-third of published psychology research is reliable

What we found is that when these 100 studies were run by other researchers, however, only 36% reached statistical significance.

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Confirmation Bias Explained

Confirmation bias occurs from the direct influence of desire on beliefs. When people would like a certain idea or concept to be true, they end up believing it to be true. They are motivated by wishful thinking.

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The replication crisis is good for science

Science is in the midst of a crisis: A surprising fraction of published studies fail to replicate when the procedures are repeated.

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What makes fake news feel true when it isn’t?

Repetition for a start

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