Confirmation bias is the effective way to go on living a lie #shorts

16 Feb 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video (TJ Walker #shorts) explaining confirmation bias and urging viewers to seek credible sources that challenge their assumptions. Walker warns that confirmation bias leads to reinforcing prejudices and recommends actively seeking opposing premises and conclusions to stress-test one’s ideas; he calls this the “TJ Walker habit.”

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There are a lot of biases in the world, but one of the worst is confirmation bias. We're all guilty of this. I'm guilty of this. Looking for data that reaffirms our own worldview, our own prejudices. If you want to continue to grow as a person, to actually be smart, to obtain some level of wisdom, you have to actively, consciously seek out credible sources of information where you know, you disagree with some of their premises and some of their conclusions and some of their analysis. It's the only way you're going to stress test your own ideas. You got to seek out other sources of information. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.