The Human Bias

in Article, Opinion
April 10th, 2014



So our brain sacrifices accuracy for a stable picture – why is this important? Beyond every pop psychology notion that you can’t believe everything you see, Whitney’s study represents an effort to move past an anthropomorphic bias. All good science since Aristotle has been empirical, meaning that its findings have relied on human perception for their accuracy. Now as we are coming to find that our perceptions aren’t necessarily an accurate representation of the physical world, the term empirical may not carry the same weight it used to. That is why it is necessary that we understand how our perceptual biases might affect how we obtain and interpret data from experiments, so that as scientists we can be sure that our picture of the world is a correct one.

-Sid Vashi


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