(January 15, 2018 at 12:33 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias(January 15, 2018 at 11:56 am)Agnosty Wrote: Confirmation bias is the impetus for scientific inquiry. Hang on, let me go find evidence to back that statement So, as soon as we begin, we're off on the wrong foot. But we muddle along.
Intrigued... but confused.
I posited that confirmation bias is the impetus for scientific inquiry.
Now that I have that belief in mind, I will try to find evidence to back it up.
You don't see the humor?
That's really how science works.
A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions.
Who seeks to disprove their own theory? What atheist here is critical of his own belief? The idea that anyone would be critical of what they're advocating is silly and a flaw inherent to science. (Now I have to find evidence to back that up LOL <-- confirmation bias)