It’s not confirmation bias when two people agree. It’s confirmation bias when one refuses to take into account contradictory evidence. Do you have any?
It is more or less what khafra stated. I’m not saying it is true in your case (hint: winking smiley) but it is very common for people to evaluate their life choices as you did without regard for the evidence. To put it another way, your statement would only distinguishable from the ubiquitous life choice confirmation bias if you stated it had made your life much worse.
I can imagine several places worse than the Bay Area for many people (and several places better), so it is not as though your statement was not plausible on its face. :-)
I read Rogers as saying “that does not sound materially different from what someone under the influence of confirmation bias would say, so I’m not updating my beliefs based on your story.”
That resonates well with me...when I decided I liked the way the people in the Bay area did things, I moved here. It had made my life much better.
That sounds an awful lot like confirmation bias. ;-)
It’s not confirmation bias when two people agree. It’s confirmation bias when one refuses to take into account contradictory evidence. Do you have any?
It is more or less what khafra stated. I’m not saying it is true in your case (hint: winking smiley) but it is very common for people to evaluate their life choices as you did without regard for the evidence. To put it another way, your statement would only distinguishable from the ubiquitous life choice confirmation bias if you stated it had made your life much worse.
I can imagine several places worse than the Bay Area for many people (and several places better), so it is not as though your statement was not plausible on its face. :-)
I read Rogers as saying “that does not sound materially different from what someone under the influence of confirmation bias would say, so I’m not updating my beliefs based on your story.”