BIO330H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Bias, Effect Size
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Self deception is human nature, our brains evolved a long time ago in savannah and jumping to co(cid:374)clusio(cid:374)s is part of sur(cid:448)i(cid:448)al. We jump to conclusions and find false patterns in just random situations. Science is growing which means there are more errors and biases. Academic environment is competitive so people have a stake in the outcome. Cognitive bias when we get a large data set, we cant go through it as accurately. Point and click software makes it easier to go through the data. Hypothesis myopia people fixate on finding evidence for 1 hypothesis. We neglect other hypotheses and don"t co(cid:374)sider other e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374)s. You pick results that gave you most agreeable results. Asymmetric attention to detail = we give expected results a pass but we check unexpected results. When we get a weird result, you think you made a mistake but you probably made a mistake in the other results as well.
