If you are on a weight loss program, you adjust our diet and every morning you will check your weight on weighing scale.
If you notice your weight less than before, you give a pat on your back and you consider diet is working well.
If you notice your weight shows increase you consider it's a normal fluctuation and you tend to write-off and put a notice 'forget it'.
The next day and for the coming days, similar things happen, the weight does not show any significant change from before and you live in an illusion that the diet is working well, although the weight remains almost constant.
This is known as 'confirmation favoritism.'
'Confirmation favoritism' is the origin of all misconceptions for us.
It is nothing but a tendency to interpret new sets of information so that it becomes compatible and falls in line with our existing theories, beliefs, and convictions. If we have to say in other words, we tend to filter out any new information or signals that contradict or do not agree with our existing set of theories or views.
This is dangerous because you dismiss or ignore the 'exceptional' or 'special cases' information which is basically disconfirming evidence.
To get out of 'Confirmation favoritism', look for disconfirming pieces of evidence and signal, note it down and try to work upon it.
Confirmation favoritism could be an intellectual offense that can't be ruled out easily.
If you notice your weight less than before, you give a pat on your back and you consider diet is working well.
If you notice your weight shows increase you consider it's a normal fluctuation and you tend to write-off and put a notice 'forget it'.
The next day and for the coming days, similar things happen, the weight does not show any significant change from before and you live in an illusion that the diet is working well, although the weight remains almost constant.
This is known as 'confirmation favoritism.'
'Confirmation favoritism' is the origin of all misconceptions for us.
It is nothing but a tendency to interpret new sets of information so that it becomes compatible and falls in line with our existing theories, beliefs, and convictions. If we have to say in other words, we tend to filter out any new information or signals that contradict or do not agree with our existing set of theories or views.
This is dangerous because you dismiss or ignore the 'exceptional' or 'special cases' information which is basically disconfirming evidence.
To get out of 'Confirmation favoritism', look for disconfirming pieces of evidence and signal, note it down and try to work upon it.
Confirmation favoritism could be an intellectual offense that can't be ruled out easily.
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