My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
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All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything that agrees with the outcome we want.
We historians are increasingly using experimental psychology to understand the way we act. It is becoming very clear that our ability to evaluate risk is hedged by all sorts of cognitive biases. It's a miracle that we get anything right.
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.
The interpretation of facts in a certain way stimulates other scientists' thoughts.
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.
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