Worldview and Confirmation Bias: The Problem of Social Sciences Cover Image

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Worldview and Confirmation Bias: The Problem of Social Sciences

Author(s): Katarzyna Grunt-Mejer
Subject(s): Social Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: confirmation bias; objectivity; social sciences; bias reduction

Summary/Abstract: The work aims to describe the ideological monoculture in social sciences as a source of accumulation of distortion in the description of reality, resulting from a confirmation bias in its several variants (determination of the specific research problem, biased selection of literature, tendentious interpretation of the results, and acceptance of phantom facts in the scientific discourse). Methods of reducing the bias are presented.

  • Issue Year: 25/2017
  • Issue No: 2 (98)
  • Page Range: 103-119
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish