You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: VLog 7.12.19 - Mercury is in RETROGRADEView the full contextinertia (73)in #dtube • 7 years ago
![Confirmation Bias: A fallacy of logos, recognizing the fact that one always tends to notice, search out, select and share evidence that confirms one's own standpoint and beliefs, as opposed to contrary evidence. This fallacy is how 'fortune tellers' work--If I am told I will meet a 'tall, dark stranger' I will be on the lookout for a tall, dark stranger, and when I meet someone even marginally meeting that description I will marvel at the correctness of the 'psychic's' prediction. In contemporary times Confirmation Bias is most often seen in the tendency of various audiences to 'curate their political environments, subsisting on one-sided information diets and [even] selecting into politically homogeneous neighborhoods'** (Michael A. Neblo et al., 2017, Science magazine.) Confirmation Bias means that people tend to seek out and follow solely those media outlets that confirm their common ideological and cultural biases, sometimes to an degree that leads a the false (implicit or even explicit) conclusion that 'everyone' agrees with that bias and that anyone who doesn't is 'crazy,' 'looney,' evil or 'radicalized.' See also, 'Half Truth,' and 'Defensiveness.'](https://steemitdevimages.com/640x0/https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmaKgLSJHTN2qPNYaf8i7Zr3EwSbbCMijfsD4rkvpi9AUx/image.png)
LOL! Yes. Confirmed.
I like words... and still sometimes they escape me completely... especially after poking smot. 😉 #mustdotheseBEFOREthat