Originally Posted by
yarb
That's the whole point. This thread is all about stereotypes and making unfair assumptions. It may not be right, but it's fun.
Actually if I notice that 95% of the drivers who pass me shoddily are wearing hats, but only 5% of those who pass me safely are, surely that means something? Not that I would ever be sad enough to compile statistics on it.
Yeah I put the laugh after it because I agree that we should be having fun in this thread instead of turning it into an A&S discussion...
But, since you mentioned it... what I meant by "confirmation bias" is that I don't think you know how many hat-wearers passed you safely, because your brain doesn't consider those events important... it just wants to pay real close attention to those times you almost died. So, it could be that only 5% of hat wearers are bad drivers, but 95% of bad drivers are hat wearers... and if you have close calls with hat wearers a lot, it just means that apparently most people like to wear hats while driving.
There are other kinds of confirmation bias in effect here, but you get the idea...
Just making a joke because we all have confirmation biases. Except for me... I've never noticed any confirmation biases in myself...
