{"id":2548,"date":"2019-11-12T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:42:04","slug":"confirmation-bias-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/confirmation-bias-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Bias Definition: Why You See What You Want to See"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/confirmation-bias-definition-2\/\">confirmation bias<\/a>? What can cause confirmation bias?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Confirmation bias is the tendency to find and interpret information in a way that confirms your prior beliefs.<\/strong> We selectively pay attention to data that fit our prior beliefs and discard data that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better understand the above confirmation bias definition and how confirmation bias occurs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/integrative-decision-making\/\">decision making<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Confirmation Bias<\/strong> and Decision Making<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The above confirmation bias definition suggests that confirmation bias may impact decision making. Confirmation bias materializes in a few ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Confirmation bias is the tendency to find and interpret information in a way that confirms your prior beliefs.<\/strong> We selectively pay attention to data that fit our prior beliefs and discard data that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better understand the above confirmation bias definition and how confirmation bias occurs in decision making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmation bias materializes in a few ways:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We selectively pay attention to data that fit our prior beliefs and discard data that don\u2019t.<\/li><li>We seek out sources that tend to give us confirmatory data, and reject sources that contradict our beliefs.<\/li><li>We recall information that confirms our beliefs more readily than contradictory information.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Lazy System 2 Accepts the Errors of System 1<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>System 1 is fast, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/intuitive-thinking\/\">intuitive thinking<\/a>. System 2 is slow, deliberate thinking. Confirmation bias emerges when System 2 fails to check System 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before we look at how confirmation bias is involved, consider these questions, and go through them quickly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/should-you-trust-your-intuition\/\">trusting your intuition<\/a>.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) How many murders happen in Michigan each year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) Does the conclusion from the premises?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All roses are flowers.<\/li><li>Some flowers fade quickly.<\/li><li>Therefore, some roses fade quickly.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Ready to see the answers?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) The trick is whether you remember that Detroit is in Michigan. People who remember this estimate a number that is much higher (and more accurate) than those who forget.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) The answer is no\u2014all roses may not fit into the subcategory of flowers that fade quickly.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>===<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of your answers, if you really spent time on it, <em>could<\/em> be verified by deliberate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/system-2-thinking\/\">System 2 thinking<\/a>. For the first question, if you had to enumerate the major cities of Michigan, you would likely list Detroit.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some people, spending enough time would be sufficient to get the answers right. But <strong>many people, even if given unlimited time, might not even <\/strong><strong><em>think<\/em><\/strong><strong> to apply their System 2 to question their answers<\/strong> and find different approaches to the question. Over 50% of students at Harvard and MIT gave the wrong answer to the bat-and-ball question; over 80% at less selective universities.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the insidious problem of a \u201clazy System 2.\u201d System 1 surfaces the intuitive answer for System 2 to evaluate. <strong>But a lazy System 2 doesn\u2019t properly do its job <\/strong>&#8211; it accepts what System 1 offers without expending the small investment of effort that could have rejected the wrong answer.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even worse, this aggravates confirmation bias. A piece of information that fits your prior beliefs might evoke a positive System 1 feeling, while your System 2 might never pause to evaluate the validity of the piece of information. <strong>If you believe a conclusion is true, you might believe arguments that support it, even when the arguments are unsound.<\/strong> This is the danger of the confirmation bias.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s useful then to distinguish between intelligence and rationality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Intelligence might be considered the full computational horsepower of a person\u2019s brain.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Rationality is resistance to mental laziness; <strong>not accepting a superficially plausible answer<\/strong>; being more skeptical of intuitions; tending to put in the hard work of checking the logic; and thus immunity to biases.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, a powerful system 2 is useless if the person doesn\u2019t recognize the need to override their system 1 response. Failing to override leads to more confirmation bias, which leads to more failure to override system 1 responses, creating a vicious cycle.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme here is that <strong>people are overconfident and place too much faith in their intuitions<\/strong>. Further, they find cognitive effort unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible. This leads to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/confirmation-bias-in-decision-making\/\">confirmation bias in decision making<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is confirmation bias? What can cause confirmation bias? Confirmation bias is the tendency to find and interpret information in a way that confirms your prior beliefs. We selectively pay attention to data that fit our prior beliefs and discard data that don\u2019t. 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