How to prevent confirmation bias affecting your journalism
5 min readApr 26, 2020
This post was first published on the Online Journalism Blog — read the original for updates.
A couple weeks ago I published a guide to cognitive biases for journalists. I saved perhaps the biggest one of all — confirmation bias — for a post all of its own. It might be one of the best-known biases, but for that very reason it can be easy to underestimate. Here…