[SEQ RERUN] Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark
Today’s post, Positive Bias: Look Into the Dark was originally published on 28 August 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
Positive bias is the tendency to look for evidence that confirms a hypothesis, rather than disconfirming evidence.
Discuss the post here (rather than in the comments to the original post).
This post is part of the Rerunning the Sequences series, where we’ll be going through Eliezer Yudkowsky’s old posts in order so that people who are interested can (re-)read and discuss them. The previous post was The Futility of Emergence, and you can use the sequence_reruns tag or rss feed to follow the rest of the series.
Sequence reruns are a community-driven effort. You can participate by re-reading the sequence post, discussing it here, posting the next day’s sequence reruns post, or summarizing forthcoming articles on the wiki. Go here for more details, or to have meta discussions about the Rerunning the Sequences series.
I just wanted to let everyone know that I am going to be leaving in a couple of days to go on a one week long canoeing trip, and I do not anticipate having internet access for that period of time. Needless to say, that means I will not be available to post the daily sequence rerun. I will be around to post “Say Not Complexity” and “My Wild and Reckless Youth”, tomorrow and the next day. Once I return, I plan to continue posting wherever this community has left off. If no one makes any posts of their own, I will resume with “Failing to Learn from History”, but if anyone does want to take on the responsibility of making the rerun posts for a week, it would probably be appreciated by the rest of the community.