ABranco comments on The Importance of Saying "Oops" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ABranco 20 October 2009 04:36:15AM 4 points [-]

I admit I don't remember any case of people publicly affirming, out of the blue: "I am damn wrong, big time!".

No homeopath waking up in a regular Tuesday and declaring "Gee!, I'm sorry, I've read an article and realized I've been medicating people with this placebo 'Styrofoam' little balls for the last five years and now I see this was insane. I am publicly apologizing for my patients. I quit. But I am happy that I can see it now, and can still become a specialist in something else."

Confirmation bias seems to grow stronger the more the time passes, and the more public their opinion gets.

(I know this is an ooooold post, but since I thought about it, why not reply?)