Question of the Day #1288

Don’t let confirmation bias narrow your perspective

From the headline of this article at the News Literacy Project.

  上記の文で、confirmation biasの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "confirmation bias" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

《a ～》《心理学》確証バイアス◆自分の信念や思い込みが正しいかどうかを判断するための情報を集める際に、自分の信念に反する（または自分にとって都合の悪い）情報を無視する傾向。

   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:

the fact that people are more likely to accept or notice information if it appears to support what they already believe or expect

 

Examples

1. Investigators said that the pilots' behaviour was a classic example of confirmation bias, the act of only seeing evidence supporting their preconceptions.
2. To know if you have any confirmation bias tendencies, ask yourself, “How often do I look for signs that I may be wrong in my analysis?”
3. To Jake Scott, an infectious disease expert at Stanford Medical School who painstakingly examined the agency’s data citations, they point to “textbook confirmation bias”—the quest for information that confirms someone’s preexisting beliefs. From Los Angeles Times
4. Work I was involved in has shown that people who are dispositionally ambivalent — that is, who are more comfortable holding contradictory thoughts or feelings — are less prone to cognitive biases like the confirmation bias. From Salon
5. He argued in a social media post that Latino politicians were using the term “to appease white rich progressives who think that is the term we use. It is a vicious circle of confirmation bias.” From Los Angeles Times

   

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