The Most Common Cognitive Bias

I don't have much to say. I believe this demonstrates one of the bigger mismatches of what's logical and what's default-to behavior of humans.

We enjoy being correct. But being wrong is far more useful for gaining new information and, in most cases, improving. Yet, we like being correct so much that even when the literal objective is finding something out, we default to confirming our beliefs rather than stress-testing them.

Observe carefully, and you will find this everywhere, imo.

- aleksi