• conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I see it daily with most people I interact with in multiple, varied communities (and no, I don’t and refuse to use those platforms, because video content is shit).

    They will not read two paragraphs of text. They will happily spend hours churning through junk short videos.

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      4 months ago

      I get it. That’s still confirmation bias, because in comparison, the people that I’m around read often. Our individual experiences are not good ways to determine what people in general are doing.

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        4 months ago

        That’s not what confirmation bias means. Confirmation bias has absolutely nothing to do with sample size or what you’re exposed to.

        It’s ignoring the evidence you see in order to prop up a pre-existing belief.