ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT: WHY ARE SO MANY OF US WRONG?
In my book, Snake Oil is Alive and Well, I devoted much attention to the psychological research explaining why judgments are frequently erroneous. In it, I analyzed several mechanisms for the formation of false beliefs (biases), a major one of which is the so-called “confirmation bias,” as discussed below: CONFIRMATION BIAS This represents the tendency …
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