Confirmation Bias¶
Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation Bias: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises. Review of General Psychology, 2(2), 175-220.
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- Confirmation Bias
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This sourceComprehensive review of the seeking/interpreting of evidence partial to existing beliefs across cognitive and applied domains, including intelligence-failure post-mortems
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Mechanisms¶
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- Its failure mode is correlation laundering dressed up as rigor: a team that started from a preferred conclusion
This sourceDescribes confirmation bias as preferentially seeking or interpreting evidence in favor of an existing belief or hypothesis.
- Its failure mode is correlation laundering dressed up as rigor: a team that started from a preferred conclusion
- User Research Synthesis
- Its failure mode is confirmation bias: because synthesis is interpretive and the sample is small, it is easy to synthesize toward the roadmap belief you walked in with, and easy to over-generalize from a handful of vivid users to everyone.
This sourceReview of General Psychology 2(2): 175–220, 1998. Defines confirmation bias as seeking or interpreting evidence in ways partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or hypotheses.
- Its failure mode is confirmation bias: because synthesis is interpretive and the sample is small, it is easy to synthesize toward the roadmap belief you walked in with, and easy to over-generalize from a handful of vivid users to everyone.
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