Fact-Check Your Brain: Break Free from Confirmation Bias
Why do we favor our existing beliefs? And how can we tame this bias?
Remember the last time you saw some news and were like: “Yes, exactly. See? I knew it.”
Or you may have gone through the replies to a tweet you strongly disagreed with just to find someone else who disagreed, too.
Well, consider this as your first sign that you were biased. While it’s natural to be so, this confirmation bias, more likely than not, leads to ill-informed thoughts and beliefs.
Here’s why you should care about confirmation bias and how you can work around it so you don’t fall into its trap and risk making uninformed decisions.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Confirmation bias is simply your tendency to search for, interpret, and remember information in a manner that confirms what you already believe.
Say you and your friend are in a heated debate about whose football team is better. And your fanatic friend goes off, seeking to remind you of all the instances and highlights when his favorite team performed exceptionally well, even the ones that happened a long time…
