People recognise bias in others' judgement while believing their own introspection to be accurate.
Emily Pronin's studies found people rated themselves less susceptible than average to biases just described to them. The blind spot survives being told about the blind spot.
In practice
- A manager who has just read about confirmation bias uses it to explain her deputy's position and not her own.
- Everyone on the panel agrees that interview scores are unreliable, and each believes their own scores are the exception.
- Further reading
- Wikipedia
- Subject
- Decision-making & Reasoning
- Essay
- The catalogue of predictable errors