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How To Figure Sh*t Out, Including Time Travel w/ Dr. Geoff Goddu #399

Aubrey Marcus Podcast

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How to Test a Confirmation Bias?

A lot of these biases or heuristics are designed with a biological evolutionary biology purpose. That's my hypothesis anyway. I want to go and test it. Well, you don't want to be testing your hypothesis right. Right. Even though you may be wrong about that. But to wait around to check. Yeah. It just doesn't make sense.Right. So it's so tough because a lot ofThese biases or hearistics are designed for a biological evolutionary Biology purpose. This is the reason why we're not very good at probability. And this explains why human beings are prone to confirmation bias. Okay. What should I do as a good researcher? How do I test it

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