Confirmation bias: A psychological phenomenon that helps explain why pundits got it wrong
- Written by Ray Nickerson, Research Professor of Psychology, Tufts University
Like wearing psychological blinders.Horse image via www.shutterstock.com.As post mortems of the 2016 presidential election began to roll in, fingers started pointing to what psychologists call the confirmation bias as one reason many of the polls and pundits were wrong in their predictions of which candidate would end up victorious.
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