How doctors actually think
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How doctors actually think
In psychology there are at least two biases that drive this pattern. One is confirmation bias:23 seeing what we expect to see. The other is desirability bias:24 seeing what we want to see. These biases don’t just prevent us from applying our intelligence. They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
from Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
They can actually contort our intelligence into a weapon against the truth.
- We theorists are not fully aware of the extent to which the experiments we plan and carry out are biased to favor our theoretical point of view.
from Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman by Daniel Kahneman
- Of the fifty-odd biases discovered by Kahneman, Tversky, and their successors, forty-nine are cute quirks, and one is destroying civilization. This last one is confirmation bias - our tendency to interpret evidence as confirming our pre-existing beliefs instead of changing our minds.
from The Attention Span. “Racehorses and Psychopaths.” by thekcpgroup.com
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