Observer_bias

This page is for discussion of "observer" or "confirmation" bias.

A couple of recent articles identify and discuss a number of even subtler biases one has to watch out against:

Jonah Lehrer, New Yorker, 12/13/2010, 86(40) [|"The truth wears off"]

John Ioannidis, [|"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False"] (the title is intentionally provocative, but results are worrying).