Learning and Cognition

LTEC 5300: Learning and Cognition

Confirmation Bias and How it Limits Informed Decision Making

While researching the idea that confirmation bias limits our point of view, there are many scientific studies and research that support this reasoning. In this paper, different experiments are presented in which scientists worked with subjects to create situations in which confirmation bias most likely presented itself. In most of the situations, the subject(s) were given information in different ways, both pushed and pulled, and then asked to make an informed decision. You will see in these experiments that, in most cases, confirmation bias limited their viewpoint, and subsequently they were not able to make informed rational decisions.