Saturday, January 20, 2007

Overcoming Bias

I commend to you the group blog, Overcoming Bias. Here's an about statement:
How can we better believe what is true? While it is of course useful to seek and study relevant information, our minds are full of natural tendencies to bias our beliefs via overconfidence, wishful thinking, and so on. Worse, our minds seem to have a natural tendency to convince us we that are aware of and have adequately corrected for such biases, when we have done no such thing.

In this forum we discuss whether and how we might avoid this fate, by spending a bit less effort on each specific topic, and a bit more effort on the general topic of how to be less biased.
Of course the blogs I recommend, I recommend because they comfortably confirm my biases.

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