Confirmation bias

Post to reply to==> Confirmation bias, as the name indicates it is the tendency to look for a perfect evidence in support of beliefs and to ignore evidence that would disprove an evidence. Confirmation bias is the situation or character of a people where he interprets or recall information in his memory that only supports his already existing beliefs or hypothesis. These people tend to interpret evidence in a biased way or even recall old memory by selectively picking them. In arguments, evidence is used as the grounds or premises for our belief in a conclusion. While analytical skills are essential in evaluating an argument and are addressed in greater detail in subsequent chapters, we first need to make sure the evidence on which we base our analysis is accurate and complete. Evidence can come from many different sources, some more reliable than others. When people would like a certain idea or concept to be true, they end up believing it to be true. I believe that every person in their life have confronted the concept of confirmation bias. In my daily day, I come across with some examples of confirmation bias. Most of the time, it occurs at my job. I feel confused, maybe angry and the worse that I can do is to assume. When I ask a question via email to my manager and I haven’t received an answer, I am already assuming that maybe I did something wrong or the question was not clear. The problem with this type of thinking is that I jump to conclusions and what I believed already happened. When I was doing my internship for Medical Assistant, I came across a situation with another medical assistant that was showing me the process of drawing blood. She was poking the needle several parts of the patients arm because the blood was not flowing. I told her that she shouldn’t try for more than 2 times, was she reply to me who told you that? I learned at school by a doctor and she never believed what I said. I still believe on what I learned until I can keep sourcing and find that there is a situation that might need to try several times.  Confirmation bias can also be found in anxious individuals, who view the world as dangerous. For example, a person with low self-esteem is highly sensitive to being ignored by other people, and they constantly monitor for signs that people might not like them. Thus, if you are worried that someone is annoyed with you, you are biased toward all the negative information about how that person acts toward you. You interpret neutral behavior as indicative of something negative (Hesmat, 2015)

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