Hindsight bias: Hindsight bias is when you know something right after it happens and not while it is happening. Some people call it the I-knew-it-all-along phenomenon. This is where you watch a sports game and when the game is over‚ think to yourself that you knew they would loose‚ when in fact you were on the edge of your seat waiting to see how the game was going to end and if your team would win or not. (Myers‚ 2010‚ p.16.) I have had several instances where hindsight bias has
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confirmation bias can easily influence our perceptions and holding certain beliefs can also generate their own confirmation; regardless of the statistics‚ facts‚ or proof. Our preconception of our society‚ world‚ or even any given situation will greatly influence how we will interpret those things and situations or by the beliefs that we hold. Since most people tend to side with information that confirms how they may perceive a situation‚ a good example could be gun control and the bias that may arise
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore‚ all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw When I first read this‚ I immediately thought that this goes back to a classical debate of being ideal against being practical. To challenge the status quo. But do we really have to be unreasonable in order to achieve progress? Being reasonable implies practicality which denotes steadiness and soundness
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to be successful in any sort of way. So to hear that I may have been put at a disadvantage because of gender bias in the classroom upsets me in a way. I mean not to an extent where I think that every single thing I have ever learned was made so a woman could understand it‚ but just in the way that maybe something I didn’t understand could have been better explained but due to gender bias the ability to learn a certain subject to my complete potential was kept from me. But I think that the differences
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feed or toothpaste to keep your dental hygiene‚ you also need to purchase toilet paper for its small purpose in your daily life. It was by having to choose a particular brand of this item that I observed how my decision was influenced by an anchoring bias. There are not many technical details one needs to look after when choosing toilet paper. It is mostly all down to the number of rolls per bag and the length of each roll. One can argue that texture and resistance are other relevant factors to be
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What is Confirmation Bias? Confirmation bias is a tendency of people to prefer information that reinforces a thought or believe that they have. People demonstrate this bias when they retain information selectively‚ or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotional issues and for deeply rooted beliefs. (Science Daily) Examples of Confirmation Bias There are many everyday examples of people using confirmation bias behavior. A student doing research on only one
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I’ve Always Known About the Hindsight Bias "Oh‚ I shouldn’t have missed that question‚ I knew the answer." No I didn’t‚ I just thought I did. I just further proved the concept of the Hindsight Bias‚ or the "I knew it all along phenomenon." This concept came about in the late seventies when psychologists Paul Slovic and Baruch Fischoff began studying how scientific results and historical happenings always seem like common sense to people when in fact ‚ they had no idea. Once people find out
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may think that this is something that just happens at this day in age‚ but this occurs everywhere and has occurred over time. This is called historical bias. This paper will investigate ways to avoid historical bias‚ how historical bias may affect how we think about our past‚ and other examples of historical bias. First‚ avoiding historical bias may be hard but it is not impossible. There are many things one can do to make an accurate decision or even a compromise of all the stories and find the
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Familiarity Bias: The Potent Cognitive Bias The great oracle Wiki says Familiarity bias is a “rule of thumb” that people like you and I use when forming a judgement‚ decisions or beliefs – Sounds all highbrow and impressive but leaves you scratching your head‚ wondering at the meaning‚ doesn’t it? To make understanding easier‚ let’s begin with an example; You are working in a corporate office for years. You are stagnating in the job. You know that you can find a better job with your experience
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I would say the source did not necessarily change my thinking on the research question‚ but it did affect my by providing different reasons as to why Latinos are not as likely to get elected in to legislature. Juenke‚ Eric Gonzalez. "Ignorance Is Bias: The Effect Of Latino Losers On Models Of Latino Representation." American Journal Of Political Science 58.3 (2014): 593-603. Academic Search Complete. Web. 24 Feb. 2016. This source in particular was a study done to examine why minorities get
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