Kudos to Ed Outlaw for his superb November 28, 2020 Owl and Ibis - A Confluence of Minds presentation, "Confirmation Bias/My Side Bias." A PDF copy of Ed's PowerPoint presentation is available here.
Ed's points of argumentation were:
1a: Confirmation Bias is common and significant in the way people think about political issues on both sides in our current politically polarized environment.1b:This is both a cause and an effect of political polarization, leading to a cycle that perpetuates a politically divided community.2a: Understanding one’s own Confirmation Bias can make a person’s political beliefs stronger, better-founded, and more convicted (counterintuitively).2b: While at the same time working against political polarization.
The discussion that followed explored a number of areas. Here are a few:
- Ed's points of argumentation were unopposed.- When one is objectively on the "right" side (moral high ground) of a moral, political or social issue, is one a victim of confirmation bias or are they simply correct?- Is US society at a moral impasse, especially in a political sense?
Congratulations and thanks, Ed!
Jim
O&I Admin
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