Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What Is Truth?”

Fraser, Robert

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“…Confirmation bias, it has been argued, has underpinned the emergence of, or alternatively the intensification of, what has been called “post-truth”/“post-factual” politics characterized by the diminishing importance of anchoring utterances in verifiable facts – albeit there was never a golden age in which political debate was based solely on facts and truth (Fraser, 2020; Pepp et al ., 2019; Zimmerman et al ., 2019). The massive growth of largely unregulated social media platforms and the related development of increasingly segmented information “markets” enables a particular class of surveillance and manipulative practices, including extensive micro-identification (algorithmic personalization) of individuals’ genuinely held beliefs, fantasies and prejudices and targeting them with reinforcing on-line tailored, false, misleading or divisive messages (Lokot and Diakopoulos, 2016; cf.…”

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Fooling ourselves and others: confirmation bias and the trustworthiness of qualitative research – Part 1 (the threats)

McSweeney

2021

JOCM

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PurposeTo describe the implicit epistemic flaw of “confirmation bias” and to illustrate and evaluate the threats to qualitative research trustworthiness from that bias.Design/methodology/approachThe article overviews evidence and analysis from a wide range of disciplines. The adverse effect of three varieties of confirmation bias is described in some detail in illustrative examples.FindingsIt is argued that the threats from the bias go to the heart of the research. A subsequent article summarizes and critiques counter-arguments.Practical implicationsDiscussions and illustrations of varieties of confirmation bias can increase awareness of the unwitting bias and reduce its influence.Social implicationsThe bias not only threatens the trustworthiness of academic and other professional research but also underpins much ideological extremism, the effectiveness of post-truth politics and inter- and intra-group conflict. These are directly discussed in the article.Originality/valueThe article extends and enriches descriptions of threats to the trustworthiness of qualitative from confirmation bias. Such threats are inadequately recognized in many qualitative research arenas. It identifies a previously unrecognized variety of confirmation bias: hollow citations.

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Section: Confirmation Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fooling ourselves and others: confirmation bias and the trustworthiness of qualitative research – Part 1 (the threats)

McSweeney

2021

JOCM

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Ancient Biographers and Modern Classicists: “What Is Truth?”

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Fooling ourselves and others: confirmation bias and the trustworthiness of qualitative research – Part 1 (the threats)

Fooling ourselves and others: confirmation bias and the trustworthiness of qualitative research – Part 1 (the threats)

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