This explains you guys to a T!!! I think the most important phrase there is "the limited human capacity to process information". Basically you guys have child like minds when having to process complex information, which is why you think posting an article about the Great Lakes rising 1 year supports your claim, or you take the words of one individual who agrees with you as Gospel and ignore thousands of others. It is absolutely hilarious. Like dealing with children.
Confirmation bias (also called
confirmatory bias or
myside bias) is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or
hypotheses.[SUP]
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[1][/SUP] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a
biased way. The effect is stronger for
emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain
attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence),
belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and
illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).
A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases
include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.
Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor
decisions due to these biases have been found in political and organizational contexts.
