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by dade_
4814 days ago
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This story is a lesson on confirmation bias: Professors that immediately decide that the student is wrong, and must be convinced otherwise. The spreadsheet financial analysis that provided the expected results and therefore never checked for errors. A single study that gave economists, and clearly an awful lot of politicians, the confirmation they needed to strengthen their resolve in the face of opposition. |
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Confirmation bias, at least in the politicians' cases, it just provided them with extra confidence to proceed with their agenda. Well, it may have also lent them some legitimacy.