Just learned about the #Bader-MeinhofEffect, which relies on selective attention and confirmation bias and makes you believe you're seeing something more often, even if the frequency of it hasn't actually increased.

No doubt I will see it mentioned everywhere now...

#FrequencyIllusion #FrequencyBias #ConfirmationBias

#psychology #CognitiveBiases
https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon-the-effect-you-will-now-notice-everywhere-70595

@root I found the repo only yesterday, it had obviously not yet raised my attention... guess I'm late to the party, yes. But it still triggers my #opensource #ConfirmationBias, I guess. :-)

@lednabwm #confirmationBias is *the* rampant mental health condition of our times 😬

'#ConfirmationBias' | #TimMinchin: BACK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1juPBoxBdc

@selzero (@PSiReN@vmst.io @selzero@vmst.io)

#Yup... #SeemsAboutRight...

#DontMindMy: #ConfirmationBias

🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | 🪐🦹🚀🦄🚀🦹🪐

@chad OH GOOD. I'LL CALL HIM A MASSIVE NUTSACK AND GRAB MY NICKELS. #CONFIRMATIONBIAS

@JustMe_HH

"Da sei ja schon so vieles passiert" ist genau die kognitive Ungenauigkeit, die dann faktenresistent macht!!

"Fakten??? Nee, da habe ich anderes gehört und die Gerüchte bestätigen meine Gefühle!"

#confirmationbias

Jak widzicie, zaserwowałem Wam krótkie klipy na śniadanie, czyli wg. badania teraz sprawiłem, że będziecie głupi jak je obejrzycie, a wasze zdolności poznawcze się obniżą.
#garbageScience #confirmationBias

@BlumeEvolution
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#wasserkrise #extremwetter #confirmationbias #bestatigungsfehler #klimakrise #regen

Ich weiß, klingt verrückt: Aber viele antiwissenschaftliche Dualisten werten #Regen spontan als Widerlegung (!) der #Klimakrise. Informierte daher zum #Bestätigungsfehler (engl. #ConfirmationBias) & #Extremwetter in der #Wasserkrise hier: 💧⛈️🤔

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/aber-hier-regnet-es-doch-der-haeufigste-bestaetigungsfehler-in-der-klimakrise/

"It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone through the various “Twitter Files” releases, and pointed out over and over again how the explanations people gave for them simply don’t match up with the underlying documents". https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/ #Twitter #Musk #FakeNews #ConfirmationBias #TwitterFiles

Spot on!
#TimMinchin #comedy #science #confirmationbias #
https://youtu.be/G1juPBoxBdc

ICYMI: #Opinion #confirmationbias Your letters: About confirmation bias and ‘news’ https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/04/27/your-letters-about-confirmation-bias-and-news/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#Opinion #confirmationbias Your letters: About confirmation bias and ‘news’ https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2023/04/27/your-letters-about-confirmation-bias-and-news/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#DeSantis doesn't care if he wins the fight (BTW he knows he will lose in court). All that matters is that he is seen fighting the fight by the #GOP base. #politics #ConfirmationBias #HardOfThinking

today's random #tiktok:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTR3PvQko/

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believe it or not, I'm not being sarcastic or mean in any way. I am VERY familiar from my own lifetime of being #rejected and am I can tell you is, if you're struggling to find people to date, it's because of your attitude, not your looks. there are people out there ready to love and appreciate you, but you have to stop falling into #confirmationBias that leads you to expect the worst of them. I say this with complete honesty: whoever you are, you have worth, you are deserving of love. good luck. ❤️

#datingadvice #advicefromwomen #howtodate #relationshipAdvice #howToApproachWomen #dating #bullying #selfConfidence #shallow #hotornot #HowToMakeFriends

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"#CitationBias is often unintentional, but is a consequence of the way humans think. Bishop (2020) [2] described a particular cognitive process, confirmation bias, which makes it much easier to attend to and remember things that are aligned with our prior expectations. #ConfirmationBias is a natural tendency that in everyday life that often serves a useful purpose in reducing our #CognitiveLoad, but which is incompatible with objective scientific thinking" [1]

#science #research

@RaffKarva

If you ask, l can show that l base my posts, all my statements, that are tagged with #psychology or #ClimateChange, on the #science. If l am speculating, l let the reader know.

Any layperson can say, "however, in my opinion", followed by their personal version of any particular narrative. We could call that wishful thinking. Rather than basing their ideas on science (in this context the science of psychology)

A superiority complex, for example, nationalism, causes #ConfirmationBias

However, an inaccurate superiority complex, the belief to want to be better than another or more abstract concept, is often caused by wishful thinking. In other words, not basing their opinions on the evidence.

Therefore, your opinion, whilst not incorrect, was used in an incorrect way. You brought in your opinion, to suggest that the OP's description of the public's "wishful thinking", was not correct. However, folk often can not help but feel their opinions are valid if they are unaware of the scientific literature on a subject (that contradicts those opinions)

Ultimately, we can say that less logical people (comparative psychology) are more probable to not understand nor study the science on any particular subject - But, in many examples, believe they know better than a scientist on certain subjects (Ego). A superiority complex caused by wishful thinking, an implicit cognitive bias, that in turn causes an implicit confirmation bias (there are explicit forms also)

So, when the UK public, or many people in different countries, hear their politicians say we are the " leaders of", even before it's said, the public wants to believe it. If they already have wish-based reasoning, they are more probable to believe those words at "face value", & not fact-check them (as is the case with more than half of the UK public - in this "nature depleted" context)

Faith-based thinking is very common. It's pseudo-reasoning. Many people like to believe that they know why other people think, say, write, etc, the way they do. Many people, at best, read magazine-quality "psychology" narratives on social media.

Their opinions are what science-based psychologists term "folk psychology". Folk psychology is generally a psychological "soup" of half right, half wrong, guessing (opinions)

For example, for anyone to have an evidence-based comprehension of the psychology of humans, they must have a reasonable understanding of evolutionary biology.

How many people qualify? Folk psychology is the dominant opinionated way people reason.

That river has been crossed and confirmation bias is a burden we cannot carry with us anymore. Again, judging and prejudice are natural evolutionary traits but they are raits that can no longer be justified. #evolution #confirmationbias #psychology #philosophy #EvolutionaryPsychology #self #noself #nonjudgmental

@GrantMeStrength hard to argue with this #ConfirmationBias