WikiTech The Thinking Atheist

Topic

Confirmation bias and media literacy

3 mentions in 1 episode

The tendency to seek information confirming existing beliefs rather than critically evaluating sources.

Mentions

They Go Low, We Go High? (with Cecil Cicirello)

  • 23:56

    What Joe does the most– Is Joe will confirm his own biases as often as he can.

  • 24:30

    And he treats perplexity as a supercharged confirmation bias machine.

  • 25:24

    I think that we act like this a lot on our own.