"Confirmation bias" tells us people look for confirmation that a big decision they made on a big issue was the right one. Conversely, they are going to ignore and run from any information/data that would tell them they made a terrible decision, or have been believing lies. This is probably one of those truths most people simply can't handle.
So many people just don't want to believe it. Denial and mass formation are incredibly powerful.
"Confirmation bias" tells us people look for confirmation that a big decision they made on a big issue was the right one. Conversely, they are going to ignore and run from any information/data that would tell them they made a terrible decision, or have been believing lies. This is probably one of those truths most people simply can't handle.
Exactly!
By the way, New Jersey Institute of Technology has some great pages about how to identify bias: https://researchguides.njit.edu/evaluate/basics and https://digitalskills.njit.edu/data-science-analytics/data-science-terms/