Age Of Confirmation Bias

Social media has consumed people in society and compelled them to change from their true selves. People see an ad or a picture on social media of a famous actor or singer doing something they believe in and this can affect their choices. Sometimes people can change what they believe just because someone else does it. They believe that what the famous actor or singer is doing or saying is more important than what they really believe. This was also happening in Orwell’s novel. People were deceived and, like robots, were

We are now in the "information age" where we demand to be informed, yet are told in such a way that we think we know so much, but in fact we are becoming increasingly ignorant.

Today, it is very easy to believe anything seen on the internet. With numerous resources available instantaneously, it is impossible to know which ones are misleading, and which ones are legitimate. In the end, it all comes down to being able to distinguish a fake source, from a real source.

Kathryn Schulz is an excellent writer who wrote an essay, Evidence, regarding her ways of thinking and how different types of “evidence” prove said different ways of thinking. “We rely on it […] to advance our understanding of the world” (Schulz, 362). She explains in great detail throughout the entire piece the importance of evidence in everyday life. The evidence she is explaining is the proof of why people think how they think or why they do what they do. “We care about what is probable. We determine what is probable based on our prior experience of the world” (Schulz, 366).

Confirmation bias is something that every person is susceptible to, unless you know that you’re doing it. Confirmation bias is our tendency to seek out information that we already believe to be true. This affects how you interpret information, how you seek information, and also how you remember things. When you look at the world around you, it is the conformation bias in your head that is telling you certain things to pay attention to more than others. Your brain tends to seek out evidence that confirms your beliefs about something. You often do this because you do not want to be wrong about something and will do anything

What are some ways to address dangerous types of bias in this generation? According to American Civil Liberties Union, “Racial profiling is a longstanding and deeply troubling national problem despite claims that the United States has entered a “post-racial era” (1). In today’s generation bias is a huge problem and needs to be fixed as much as it can. The types of bias that are problems today are judgment of someone’s name, racial profiling, and a persons living conditions. To address these types are not judging Americans by name, race, and or living conditions and there are several different ways to fixing these problems in society today.

If a reader was not looking for proof of an author’s argument or reliable information, i’m sure they would find this article very convincing; I do not, because in order to do so, I must place my trust in unfounded information.

Although many people in modern democracies assume that exposure to facts enlightens the misinformed citizenry, Keohane describes how, on the contrary, when faced with facts, the misinformed public rarely changes its mind. Rather, according to Brenda Nyhan’s study at the University of Michigan, when faced with facts that contradict their version of the truth, many people become “even more set in their beliefs” since they do not want to admit they are wrong. Moreover, this is reinforced by the fact that human brain seeks consistency, meaning that the way it interprets information is biased towards confirming its preconceived notions. This, compounded with the current surplus of misinformation in the media, allows the citizenry to believe

In middle school and high school we are taught to be ourselves and that people will like us for who we are. Sadly, even though people know this, many hide their feelings and don’t share because they don’t want to be ridiculed by society and their peers. This is why people follow the trends set by their peers, because they don’t want to be judged if they be themselves. Social media makes it both easier and harder to be ourselves. It makes it easier because it gives us a direct place to express our opinions because before social media there wasn’t really a place to. But the downside to social media is that it’s not considered typical to post a lot about your feelings or opinions. So even though many people have the opportunity to share their beliefs, many people shy away from it because that’s not what their peers

On a personal level, a person can reduce a bias by slowing their thinking process down. Instead of going with their gut feeling to buy a product right away, they can take the chance to shop around. It can make a person more moderate and can have them start doubting their initial beliefs and start seeing the other side of the argument. People can make an effort to overcome the confirmation bias by deliberately seeking evidence that contradicts their own viewpoints.

“Evidence is immensely central to our lives,” stated Katherine Schulz. In the reading, “Being Wrong,” you learned how your interpretation of your beliefs and how you study what you’ve collected from your evidence could determine if your information is right or wrong, and in some situations bias. Back to the previously statement, “Evidence is immensely central to our lives,” this statement goes back to validating the way we think and how we interpret it into our everyday lives. For example, when you’re solving a math equation you use your evidence (or what you already know) to help you better develop the correct answer as possible. Schulz, implied that the way we think and take things into heave portrays how we view the world. Our minds are

We live in a world of unpremeditated sureness. This has remained the case for a long time even when this sureness fails. Although no cohort believes there's nonentity left to study, every group involuntarily adopts that what has previously been demarcated and accepted is pretty adjacent to how genuineness will be viewed in eternity. And apparently, of course, periods pass. Ideas change. Opinions reverse. What once appeared reasonable ultimately becomes irrational, replaced by new perspectives that compose even more undisputable and safe till they do not.

Resistance to change springs from ignorance and fear. People rejected Galileo’s heliocentric model of the universe without even studying the science (177). People would have rather falsely believed that they were at the center of creation then have to admit that they were the third planet from the sun. They rejected Galileo’s new discovery out of fear and embellished themselves in their ignorance. Their ignorance lead them further and further from the truth and its beauty. They even adopted false ideas about the bible and thus distorted an important part of their life (Galileo, 177). A life of resistance is dangerous because it causes one to flee from the truth and live in ignorance and lies.

Modern day society is plagued with an abhorrent mindset. That thought process is identified as Social-Marxism. What is this you might ask? Well, Cultural-Marxism is the cancerous ideology that things such as: pedophilia, communism, global Islamization and jihad, Zionism, feminism and any other form of degeneracy among those lines is socially acceptable. Any person in their right mind is well-aware of the risks that a community whether large or small will run by inviting this inside of their protective borders.

Humans use inductive reasoning to support their cognitive bias. Most humans do this. It is hard to simply let of an ingrained notion and take a counter stance. Since facts and information to the contrary does not work effectively to change people’s minds, the only option is repeated exposure and experience with the irrefutable facts. An example would be someone being raised to believe that all homosexual men are also violent pedophiles, despite not knowing any homosexual men in real life. Simply telling them that this is not the case is not likely to change their minds, but repeated positive experiences with a friendly gay neighbor who is a parent, a doctor, a church goer and never