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Emily Pronin: Am I as biased as you? well, doesn´t work... Twitch inc. 21:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

bias or fallacy

The article currently begins, "The bias blind spot is the cognitive bias of failing to compensate for one's own cognitive biases." This seems wrong to me. It's a fallacy not to correct for ones biases but it is not a bias itself. Jason Quinn (talk) 04:56, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm pretty sure it's described in the sources as a bias: never seen it described as a fallacy. It's a specific exaxmple of Illusory superiority, also known as superiority bias. HTH. MartinPoulter (talk) 19:15, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

question about interpretation

I'd like to know whether the following sentence:

When they had to explain their judgments, they used different strategies for assessing their own and others' bias.

Would be better expressed as:

When they had to explain their judgments, they used a different strategy for assessing their own bias from the strategy they used to assess the others' bias.

124.107.146.23 (talk) 06:07, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done

Would love to work on this article

Anyone else watching this also want to see the article get better?

Here’s a link I found which i would like to reference better in opening lines:

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/june/bias-blind-spot.html

(posting from phone - please forgive typos) DrMel (talk) 17:51, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@DrMel: You're very much welcome make improvements. This is quite a low-quality article with not many scholarly references, about a topic which has a big published literature, so there is loads of scope to improve it. The only point I'd make it that when you see a lay summary of research, like the one you've linked, always check the paper it's summarising. Press releases about science can often distort or exaggerate what the science has actually found: university press departments naturally want to talk up the research that is being done. So it's worth checking and citing the original paper. Be bold! Cheers, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:48, 30 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]