No really, I'll wait.
Done? Good. That, right there is a pretty good example of confirmation bias in action. The woman in the video chooses to believe that everything that she reads on the internet is true because of information she found on... The Internet!! Amazing, right? Even when faced with contradictory information (the man using the State Farm app) she chooses to continue to believe in her initial conceit. In spite of evidence to the contrary, she refuses to believe that her faith in the total honesty of the internet is mistaken. She even chooses to believe that the person who shows up to take her out is actually a French model in spite of the fact that he doesn't seem very attractive (but maybe he has a great personality) and he doesn't seem to remember much French outside of the basic Bonjour (and apparently his pronunciation is horrible, but I can't be sure as I don't speak French and have only the word of a friend who does).
Things like this also kind of utilize confirmation bias since everyone lets their attitudes impact how information is interpreted. If you follow the methodology, there will end up being people who self diagnose as negative things, but more often than not, they'll end up going back and rationalizing themselves into more positive positions with the assertion that the circumstances they were thinking of are an exception and not a rule and thus shouldn't count.Because they choose to ignore information that contradicts their desired outcome, it becomes an instance of confirmation bias.
*shifty eyes*
Not that I would do that.
*em...*
Right.
No comments:
Post a Comment