Twisting the Facts: The Dangers of Confirmation Bias
May 28, 2021•35 min•Ep. 14
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Sherlock Holmes warned that “it is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data … one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts”. That tendency to interpret information to support a pet theory or to support what we think we know is called “confirmation bias”, and it can … Continue reading Twisting the Facts: The Dangers of Confirmation Bias →
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