Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remo… - Greg Craven

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Knowing how to combat your own confirmation bias helps remove that huge handicap that we all share—the tendency for our beliefs to drift toward what we want to be true.

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Greg Craven is an American high school science teacher and climate change author.

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In any disagreement between what we want to be true and what is true, physical reality wins every time.

I’ve found that if I can't come up with even an inkling of how my mind might be changed, then I'm not really thinking at all; I'm just set on holding on to my current beliefs.

As humans, we reflexively reject arguments that contradict what we would like to be true.

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