{"id":6688,"date":"2015-03-15T16:31:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T21:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:38:09","slug":"confirmation-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/confirmation-bias\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Confirmation Bias&#8217; &#8211; what it is and how it works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia defines &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confirmation_bias\">confirmation bias&#8217;<\/a> as the tendency to search for, interpret, or recall information that confirms one&#8217;s beliefs.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/27\/why-facts-dont-change-our-minds\">The New Yorker describes it<\/a> as &#8220;the tendency people have to embrace information that supports their beliefs and reject information that contradicts them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon is also known as &#8216;Myside Bias&#8217; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/library\/blog\/post\/information-bias-written-maryam-azab\">University of Waterloo<\/a> classifies it as a sub-category of &#8216;information bias&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I often forget what this term is called so thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jhbuff1492?fref=ufi\">Jeff Buffington<\/a> for helping me bring it to mind \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What &#8216;confirmation bias&#8217; is and how it affects our beliefs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What 'confirmation bias' is and how it affects our beliefs","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,492,160],"tags":[1799,1798],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-education","category-news-truths","tag-how-we-think","tag-vocabulary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13163,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions\/13163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}