Archelon comments on Open Thread, January 16-31, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Archelon 21 January 2013 11:47:47PM *  1 point [-]

Google doesn't find "confirmation bias" in that book. (It does find "confirmation" and "bias"---the latter appearing at least twice in the phrase "bias towards verification". The "verification" terminology suggests Popper's verification|falsification dichotomy, which at least according to Johnson-Laird was the inspiration for Wason's 2-4-6 task.)

(Also, how did you get an OCR error in your quote there?)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 22 January 2013 08:36:56AM 1 point [-]

(Also, how did you get an OCR error in your quote there?)

Copied the quote from the PDF of the paper, which somebody had presumably run through OCR.