PSYCH 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gluten, Confirmation Bias, Response Bias
2 Apr 2018
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Fake news: average american encountered 1-3 fake news stories during the month before the 2016 election, people are more likely to believe information that confirms what they already think (confirmation. Lies spread faster and farther than truth on twitter bias: we are more politically divided now than ever. The research versus your experience: compared to what, experience doesn"t have a comparison group, examples, blood letting vs. no treatment. If leeches suck your blood and you survive, then bloodletting helped. If leeches suck your blood and you die, then you were too sick to be helped by bloodletting: there was no comparison group without bloodletting, drinking coffee to be more alert. Experience is confounded: when we evaluate our own experience, we are not able to control for multiple, co-occurring effects on our moods or behaviors, confounds, alternative explanations for an outcome. Scientific research attempts to isolate variables that may be responsible for changes.
