Colonel Finds Plenty Of Supporting Evidence For Confirmation Bias Report
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — Col. Robert Root has found overwhelming evidence to support his latest Officer Professional Development brief on the topic of confirmation bias, sources confirmed Tuesday.
Root is preparing a series of OPDs on the subject of rhetorical fallacies, cognitive biases and cliches. Luckily, he doesn’t have to cast a wide net to capture a plethora of examples.
“I wasn’t even doing Wikipedia,” said Root, licking his lips for the 80th time in one minute, “and I found a bunch of examples of confirmation bias right in my own battalion.”
Root, the commander of the 101st Division Artillery, discussed his overarching work on the OPD series with Duffel Blog.
There were some examples which showed the opposite — that officers on Root’s staff did not, in fact, fall victim to confirmation bias.
“But I discounted those as outliers,” Root confirmed, grinning, shark-like.
He apparently spent a lot of time pondering which subject to address first.
“I was going to do this first OPD on the ‘sunk…
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