A way to avoid "confirmation bias" that is bound by prejudice and slow down appropriate judgment

ByJordan Fisher

It is the theory of cognitive psychology and social psychologyCognitive biasMeans that when evaluating or analyzing an object, it is impossible to make a legitimate judgment based on the appearance factor of the object, his own thought or desire, and a result different from the evaluation that should be evaluated against the object It is a phenomenon that will become. There are various types of cognitive bias, but one of them, and plaguing many investorsConfirmation biasHow to avoidUpstate Medical UniversityofBrett N. SteenbargerAssociate Professor has made it public.

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The confirmation bias, which is one of the cognitive biases, is an observation based on prejudice at the time of evaluating the object, adds information convenient for himself, adds to the prejudice originally held and evaluates the objectbiasTo put it on. "Proof biases not only disturb correct evaluation and judgment, but also adversely affect creating creative ideas and ideas," assistant professor Steenbarger asserts.

Asseen Professor Steenbarger presented two ways to get around the evidence bias that everyone could fall into. One is to train to properly screen the source of information that will generate prejudice. The source of information in this case is a reading, such as a book, a newspaper, an article, etc., with experience and autonomycuratorBy reading articles collected or written, it will be possible to train the power to screen information sources and to avoid the verification bias. "Articles created by curators with achievements and knowledge and appropriate criticism can be read without being influenced by what they believe or preconceived, and as a result they will be able to select information appropriately," Assistant Professor Steenbarger asserts.

ByBen Raynal

Another way to avoid evidence bias is somewhat limited,Social Science Research Network(Known as: SSRN) to read articles published. The Social Science Research Network mainlySocial scienceIt is a website collecting research and papers on universities and institutions around the world.

According to Steenbarger Assistant Professor, the strength of SSRN is not only publication of papers by excellent researchers, but also the point where links of papers read by other people who downloaded the paper are displayed when downloading the paper . This is very similar to the function displayed on Amazon as "You bought this product is buying this product". Steenbarger says, "The article selection process of this feature does not reflect my confirmation bias at all, so you can avoid confirmation bias by delegating paper selection to SSRN."


Humans do very severe screening on foods to digest in their mouths, but tend to neglect to choose strictly for information. "By strictly selecting newspapers and articles read everyday, we can create creative ideas and ideas," said Steenbarger, associate professor.