Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Here it is Southerner. I simply asked if confirmation bias works both ways. You said, essentially, that it doesn't afflict you because you are "rational" and "objective" and look for both the "positive" and "negative" and call it as *you* see it.
Then you say "some" (others) on here are susceptible to positive confirmation bias, but surely not you!
So there it is. You are the truly unbiased arbiter of honest true assessment. Not susceptible to known or unknown bias! Un-#$##n'g believable!
There you go, putting words in my mouth dude. Here’s a hint, if it isn’t in the quote above, I didn’t say it. I didn’t say that I wasn’t susceptible to confirmation bias. I said that I take a nice hard look at my own opinions and biases. That’s more than you can say for yourself, mostly, I suspect, because you are incapable of doing so.
This is why we can’t have a nice clean discussion. You don’t realize when your interpretation is creeping into your comprehension of what you’re reading. You aren’t intellectually honest. And you aren’t good at reading comprehension as a result.
Good day.