Talk:Bias blind spot
Latest comment: 3 years ago by MartinPoulter in topic Would love to work on this article
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editEmily Pronin: Am I as biased as you? well, doesn´t work... Twitch inc. 21:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
bias or fallacy
editThe article currently begins, "The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of failing to compensate for one's own cognitive biases." This seems wrong to me. It's a fallacy not to correct for ones biases but it is not a bias itself. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:56, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure it's described in the sources as a bias: never seen it described as a fallacy. It's a specific exaxmple of Illusory superiority, also known as superiority bias. HTH. MartinPoulter (talk) 19:15, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
question about interpretation
editI'd like to know whether the following sentence:
- When they had to explain their judgments, they used different strategies for assessing their own and others' bias.
Would be better expressed as:
- When they had to explain their judgments, they used a different strategy for assessing their own bias from the strategy they used to assess the others' bias.
124.107.146.23 (talk) 06:07, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
Done
Would love to work on this article
editAnyone else watching this also want to see the article get better?
Here’s a link I found which i would like to reference better in opening lines:
https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/june/bias-blind-spot.html
(posting from phone - please forgive typos) DrMel (talk) 17:51, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
- @DrMel: You're very much welcome make improvements. This is quite a low-quality article with not many scholarly references, about a topic which has a big published literature, so there is loads of scope to improve it. The only point I'd make it that when you see a lay summary of research, like the one you've linked, always check the paper it's summarising. Press releases about science can often distort or exaggerate what the science has actually found: university press departments naturally want to talk up the research that is being done. So it's worth checking and citing the original paper. Be bold! Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)