As Stuart previously recognized with the anchoring bias, it’s probably worth keeping in mind that any bias is likely only a “bias” against some normative backdrop. Without some way reasoning was supposed to turn out, there are no biases, only the way things happened to work.
Thus things look confusing around confirmation bias, because it only becomes bias when it results in reason that produces a result that doesn’t predict reality after the fact. Otherwise it’s just correct reasoning based on priors.
As Stuart previously recognized with the anchoring bias, it’s probably worth keeping in mind that any bias is likely only a “bias” against some normative backdrop. Without some way reasoning was supposed to turn out, there are no biases, only the way things happened to work.
Thus things look confusing around confirmation bias, because it only becomes bias when it results in reason that produces a result that doesn’t predict reality after the fact. Otherwise it’s just correct reasoning based on priors.