The Bias Blind Spot¶
Pronin, E., Lin, D. Y., & Ross, L. (2002). The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(3), 369-381.
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Primes¶
- Confirmation Bias
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This sourcePeople recognize bias in others more readily than in themselves and insist their self-assessments remain accurate even after reading how the relevant bias could have affected them. CITATION-FIX (prior pass): prime had listed J. Personality and Social Psychology 81(5):781–799; corrected to PSPB 28(3):369–381.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Abstract shows one study where people who read how a bias might have affected them still called their self-assessments accurate — awareness failing to correct the better-than-average bias, not confirmation-bias debiasing data.
“Participants in one follow-up study who showed the better-than-average bias insisted that their self-assessments were accurate and objective even after reading a description of how they could have been affected by the relevant bias.”
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- External Analytic Challenge
- You stop tracking which assumptions you might be making, and instead arrange for a party whose occlusions differ to meet the work, letting position do what enumeration cannot.
This sourceShows introspective self-audit fails to reach one's own biases while others detect them from outside, which is why a differently positioned station does what enumeration cannot.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract reports that people see biases far more in others than in themselves and hold to their own objectivity, but says nothing about a differently positioned party replacing enumeration.
“Three studies suggest that individuals see the existence and operation of cognitive and motivational biases much more in others than in themselves.”
- You stop tracking which assumptions you might be making, and instead arrange for a party whose occlusions differ to meet the work, letting position do what enumeration cannot.
Domain-specific¶
- Bias Blind Spot
- The bias blind spot, demonstrated by Emily Pronin and colleagues in 2002
This sourceThe founding three-study demonstration that people see cognitive and motivational biases more in others than in themselves, which named the bias blind spot. Study 1, in which students rated themselves less susceptible than the average American to each of eight biases, including self-serving attributions and the halo effect. Study 2, in which, after reading a description of the better-than-average effect, only about a quarter of participants who had rated themselves above average conceded their ratings might be biased, most insisting they were accurate and objective.
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- The bias blind spot, demonstrated by Emily Pronin and colleagues in 2002
- Naive Realism
- . Marital and interpersonal conflict — each partner experiences the conflict-relevant facts as plainly obvious and the other's resistance as wilfulness or distortion. Lay theory of bias — the bias blind spot (people detect bias more readily in others than in themselves)
This sourceThree studies showing that people see cognitive and motivational biases much more readily in others than in themselves, discussed as an expression of naive realism.
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- . Marital and interpersonal conflict — each partner experiences the conflict-relevant facts as plainly obvious and the other's resistance as wilfulness or distortion. Lay theory of bias — the bias blind spot (people detect bias more readily in others than in themselves)
Mechanisms¶
- Bias Audit
- Close behind are findings without authority (the audit surfaces a problem but no one can act on it) and the bias blind spot
This sourceFinds a bias blind spot in which people detect cognitive biases more readily in others than in themselves.
- Close behind are findings without authority (the audit surfaces a problem but no one can act on it) and the bias blind spot
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