Confirmation Biases Quotes & Sayings

astonishing number of senior leaders are systemically incapable of identifying their organization's most glaring and dangerous shortcomings. This is not a function of stupidity, but rather stems from two routine pressures that constrain everybody's thinking and behavior. The first is comprised of cognitive biases, such as mirror imaging, anchoring, and confirmation bias. These unconscious motivations on decision-making under uncertain conditions make it inherently difficult to evaluate one's own judgments and actions. As David Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell University, has shown in countless environments, people who are highly incompetent in terms of their skills or knowledge are also terrible judges of their own performance. For example, people who perform the worst on pop quizzes also have the widest variance between how they thought they performed and the actual score that they earned.22 — Micah Zenko

Dear Dan, Why is the divorce rate so high?
D.A.: It is hard to imagine we can be happy with any decision we make even one year down the road, much less when we look back at our decisions five, ten, twenty, or even fifty years later. Frankly, I am amazed by how low the divorce rate is. — Dan Ariely

However, this is too harmonious, grand, and overwhelming a universe to believe it all on accident. — Mitch Albom

When heuristics don't yield the results we expect, you'd think we would eventually realize that something's wrong. Even if we don't locate the biases, we should be able to see the discrepancy between what we wanted and what we got, right? Well, not necessarily. As it turns out, we have biases that support our biases! If we're partial to one option - perhaps because it's more memorable, or framed to minimize loss, or seemingly consistent with a promising pattern - we tend to search for information that will justify choosing that option. On the one hand, it's sensible to make choices that we can defend with data and a list of reasons. On the other hand, if we're not careful, we're likely to conduct an imbalanced analysis, falling prey to a cluster of errors collectively known as confirmation biases. — Sheena Iyengar

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov

Seance to renaissance. So it begins — Marilyn Manson

I hated most music in the 1970s, especially disco, but Bowie was edgier. — Anton Du Beke

The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth — Sunday Adelaja

It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear. — Gitty Daneshvari

You're a marshmallow. Soft and sweet and when you get heated up you go all gooey and delicious.- — Janet Evanovich

Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away? — Dave Matthews

Vladimir specialized in grey studies of hopeless misery, where nothing happened till page 380, when the muzhik decided to commit suicide. — P.G. Wodehouse

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming. — Alanis Morissette

In order to achieve great things, you have to do might ones — Rayfield

Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall. — George R R Martin

Acquire a skill not by claiming the concept, but by letting the concept claim you — Aaron Ozee