808 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Oct 2023 \ on: What are the most DANGEROUS cognitive traps to fall into? meta
Probably confirmation bias
There's some recent evidence that confirmation bias actually gets worse in people who understand confirmation bias: i.e. people succumb to confirmation bias more, when they are trying not to.
very interesting, will have to research that more
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I haven't looked into the quality of the study, and they don't investigate the mechanism, but it did catch my interest.
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