#EpistemicIdentity

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.ByrdNick@nerdculture.de
2024-10-21

More successful predictions of my #BoundedReflectivism & #EpistemicIdentity article from 2022?

From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534).

Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in #Science: doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476

They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both
- REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and
- shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)

#decisionScience #politics #psychology #philosophy #epistemology #metaphilosophy #JDM #debiasing #chatBot

New results from the Science articleThe 25 interventions from the new Science articleMy review of evidence about how reflective thinking can be helpful, ineffective, or even hurtful depending on circumstances (like epistemic identity)My review of evidence suggesting that epistemic identity does indeed impact whether and how reflective reasoning improves our judgment.

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