Posts Tagged ‘confirmation bias’

What is the Best Way to Combat Confirmation Bias?

https://digitalfilms.cat/audiovisual/ If I was 20 years younger and participated in a certain body art trend, I might have a tattoo inscribed on my forearm that said something like this: Confirmation bias MT @jayphilips: “The assumptions you start with dictate the conclusions you arrive at.” @james_christie #CAST2014 — Josh Meier (@moshjeier) August 12, 2014 As the Skeptics… Continue Reading…

https://www.indicold.com/research-innovation/

The Limits to Explanatory Journalism

In recent years, as I have paid closer attention to how our individual biases influence the way we think about everything from climate change to gun control, I have periodically been overcome with a sense of futility. I blame Dan Kahan for this. His research at Yale, along with the pioneering work of Nobel Laureate Daniel… Continue Reading…

http://www.caladore.com/massage-oils/

The Unbearable Lightness of Bias

https://www.cranewoods.com/services/ Does climate science have a confirmation bias problem? Or is it the bias of climate skeptics that is the problem?  I suppose how you answer that might reflect your own bias. And so, in light of recent posts that explored issues of trust and polarization, maybe it’s a good time for us to examine the…Continue Reading…