Combating Myside Bias in Scientific Thinking: A Special Challenge for the Gifted

IF 1.7 Q2 EDUCATION, SPECIAL Roeper Review-A Journal on Gifted Education Pub Date : 2023-06-21 DOI:10.1080/02783193.2023.2212361
R. Sternberg, M. Ghahremani, Hoda Ehsan
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ABSTRACT Myside bias, a form of confirmation bias, is a major impediment to scientific thinking. It results in scientists, potential scientists, and consumers of science drawing conclusions that do not follow from data but rather that follow from prior scientific, ideological beliefs. Gifted people are at least as susceptible to these biases as are other people. We propose in this article a set of techniques for combating such bias. In particular, we suggest that gifted (and other) individuals seeking to draw scientific conclusions put themselves in the place of various individuals involved in scientific refereeing—in particular, of reviewers with varying prior predispositions (e.g., reviewers with different paradigmatic worldviews and reviewers who are picayune critics) and journal editors. Through these techniques, gifted individuals may spare themselves embarrassments that they might otherwise encounter, not despite, but even because of their own superior intellects.
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克服科学思维中的自我偏见:对天才的特殊挑战
自我偏见是确认偏见的一种形式,是科学思维的主要障碍。它导致科学家、潜在的科学家和科学消费者得出的结论不是基于数据,而是基于先前的科学、意识形态信仰。有天赋的人至少和其他人一样容易受到这些偏见的影响。我们在这篇文章中提出了一套对抗这种偏见的技术。特别是,我们建议天才(和其他)寻求得出科学结论的个人把自己放在参与科学评审的各种个人的位置上,特别是具有不同先前倾向的审稿人(例如,具有不同范式世界观的审稿人和picayune评论家的审稿人)和期刊编辑。通过这些技巧,有天赋的人可以避免他们可能遇到的尴尬,不是尽管,而是因为他们自己的智力超群。
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