After some interesting situations at work today, I had to know if a phenomenon that I’m repeatedly experiencing is unique to me (or if I’m crazy). In short (thankfully), the answer is, “NO!” I hope you enjoy checking out what I found:
- Very Interesting (and humorously written) blog post: http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/
- Followed up a little by looking at this scholarly article: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.93.4839&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- Once I had a name for it, I looked up the trusty Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
- Finally, I landed on this excellent quote:
“The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.” - Francis Bacon