Confirmation Bias

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Confirmation Bias Explained

 Julia Galef: "Why You Think You're Right Even if You're Wrong"

5 Ways to Beat Confirmation Bias via Countable

It's important to consider your own bias and emotions about an issue while information seeking and evaluating. For example, let's say you are a member of your school's "Green Team", you are aware that plastic water bottles are harmful to the environment and you're considering starting a campaign in your school to promote the use of reusable bottles. You know that in order to run a successful campaign, you'll have to provide evidence to support your cause. However, it is important to consider that your sensitivity to environmental issues may "slant" your information seeking behaviors; you may unintentionally consider the information that supports the consumption of plastic water bottles as harmful, as more credible.  In order to come to an intelligent decision and evaluate the issue "fairly", you'll have to make a conscious effort to equally consider the beneficial aspects of plastic water bottle consumption. Think too about how your search terms may affect the your results.

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Filter Bubbles: Confirming Your Bias
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Eli Pariser: Beware of the Filter Bubbles"

Social media and search engines "feed your bias" by limiting your information feeds to the side of the story you want to hear.  Be aware! Think before you click; try private search engines such as Duck Duck Go

The Wall Street Journal

Chrome extension shows political biases of your Facebook friends and news feed.