What is Confirmation Bias and How Do You Fight it?

Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian, said it best :

“For it is a habit of humanity to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy.”

True in 5th Century BC, truer now. When we read and listen to the news we only believe what we already think is true. With the plethora of online media outlets available we tend to only pay attention to the ones that tell the story our way.

Those of us in the Radical Center don’t believe this is the critical thinking that is necessary for understanding the world we live in.

Love Trump? Hate Trump? Love Brexit? Hate Brexit? We believe you need the news from all sides to make an informed opinion.

That’s why we have created our new site The Reporters. The Reporters present news from the entire spectrum if you’re brave enough to experience it!

Of course, if you only want to focus on your confirmation bias and stay in your own media bubble be sure to see our feature “Choose Your Media Bias” where you can read the news that confirms your beliefs (or peek across at the other columns to see how the rest of the world is thinking).