alwaysbewoke: jtotheizzoe:It’s always a good time to educate yourself on the science of why people
alwaysbewoke: jtotheizzoe: It’s always a good time to educate yourself on the science of why people don’t believe in science (a problem that strikes both sides of the political aisle). (GIF via Reddit) Confirmation bias, also called myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, or prioritize information in a way that confirms one’s beliefs or hypotheses. It is a type of cognitive bias and a systematic error of inductive reasoning. People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations). basically what we’re seeing now with covid and this post is from 2014 -- source link
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