Desirability Bias
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Holistic single-interviewer evaluations trigger confirmation bias and desirability bias
“We know that it's better to go up to three or four empirically. In too many cases also it's each interviewer's job to make an overall assessment of the candidate, which makes it too easy to decide you like someone, and then confirmation bias and desirability b…”
Pride in knowledge triggers confirmation bias and traps people in overconfidence
“The basic idea is we start by being proud of something that we think we know. And that leads us then to feel a lot of conviction. That kind of launches us into confirmation bias, where we look for information that confirms our expectations, as well as desirabi…”