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Confirmation bias is a person’s tendency to endorse information that upholds their assumptions, preconceived ideas, or hypotheses, regardless of the truthfulness or falsity of said information. The phenomenon is also known as confirmatory bias or selective evidence collection, determinant in human thought and behavior. Once…
Introduction This report seeks to analyze the phenomenon of confirmation bias in medical decision-making, exploring the implications from patient to doctor. Confirmation bias connotes the seeking or interpreting of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expectations, or a hypothesis in hand (Nickerson,…
Our counter-claim for this perspective is that scientists are likely to favor positive results while repeating the experiment to verify their hypothesis. Hence, even though what makes conclusions drawn by the natural sciences more certain than that of the human sciences is that natural science…
If faced with a dire decision to be made within but a fraction of second, could this action be trusted to be rational and logical? The fallible brain, when faced with such situations, tends to take mental shortcuts to determine dire decisions and judgments based…
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“A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability.” ― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow Mankind has always been hailed as the most intelligent species on this planet. We like to believe the fact that we are in “control” of all that is happening…
Decision-making is a mental process that every individual encounters every day. Bias is present in the majority of decisions we are faced with. Bias is defined as, ‘disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded,…
Confirmation bias is defined as a tendency to look for information regarding a topic that supports the individual’s view. A key study conducted by O’brien and Ellsworth (2019) aims to evaluate whether confirmation bias has an influence on decision-making regarding criminal investigations. The methodologies that…
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