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Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias.

Authors :
Freeman JB
Johnson KL
Stroessner SJ
Source :
The Behavioral and brain sciences [Behav Brain Sci] 2022 May 13; Vol. 45, pp. e75. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 May 13.
Publication Year :
2022

Abstract

Cesario claims that all bias research tells us is that people "end up using the information they have come to learn as being probabilistically accurate in their daily lives" (sect. 5, para. 4). We expose Cesario's flawed assumptions about the relationship between accuracy and bias. Through statistical simulations and empirical work, we show that even probabilistically accurate responses are regularly accompanied by bias.

Subjects

Subjects :
Bias
Humans
Judgment

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1469-1825
Volume :
45
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
35550207
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2100073X