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Confirmation bias, seeking confirming information and dismissing the rest, is an even harder bias to circumvent
Drawn from what Michael Mauboussin said
What Michael Mauboussin actually said
- Michael Mauboussin Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global
And the second one I think is even more difficult, which is confirmation bias. Which is once we’ve made up our minds about something, we tend to seek information that confirms our point of view, and dismiss, discount, disavow information that does not.
Where this was said
↗The Tim Ferriss Show transcript: Michael Mauboussin (2023)tim.blog
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