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Too many Environmentalists and Activists suffer from CONFIRMATION BIAS
August 26, 2010 by Russell Higgs
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Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true.
As a result, people gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and interpret it in a biased way.
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re CONFIRMATION BIAS .... I've personally got 3 targets in mind when I think about confirmation bias among political activists:
There's the Chicken Licken, Henny Penny and Cocky Lockey merchants of doom.
The ego comforting "everybody-is-stupid-and-brainwashed-except-for-me" brigade.
And the knee-jerk collusion and maintenance of the concept of "them and us", "the goodies and the baddies" etc.
Russell Higgs 527 days ago