Confirmation Bias
Made by Janine Louie ·
Made by Janine Louie ·
To look into how art confirms and denies our biases and show how this affects how we perceive art.
Created: October 19th, 2015
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To look into how art confirms and denies our biases and show how this affects how we perceive art.
You did a good job of telling about confirmation bias; it was clear and easy to understand. I thought it was pretty interesting where you were able to find confirmation bias in the art you chose. It hadn't really occurred to me that I was biased in anyway when looking at them. I think "The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe)" might be an interesting piece to discuss about how challenging people's biases can lead to thought-provoking art. It's a painting of a pipe with the caption "this is not a pipe" written below it. Makes people take a second look at it, because surely the painting is a pipe, right?
Have you heard of the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It's not exactly confirmation bias, but it's sort of similar in that it illustrates how the brain picks and chooses based on our own knowledge. We have a tendency to pick up on things we recently have heard, so something that we previously thought we never encountered are now encountered in what seems like an improbable frequency. It wasn't that we had never encountered those things before; it's just that we now pay attention to them.
Great direction to take this project in. Biased memory can be attributed to how we tend to feel positive nostalgia with regards to things from our past. We tend to remember the good things and filter out the negative. Using debate as an example was good because it perfectly embodies how we bias to reinforce our arguments.
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