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confirmation bias indeed works that way more often than not: it confirms what you already believe
by eviks 3y ago
confirmation bias indeed works that way more often than not: it confirms what you already believe
- khazhoux 3y agoI'm confused which part of this is so off-putting. Joe is always the one in every standup saying the thing he's working isn't done yet because he's wrestling "one last tough bug." As a manager, you wonder if the technical problems are really that tough or if Joe is just struggling. Let's look at the commit history... yeah, something is off here, Joe has 1/10th the commits of his peers and they really don't seem more complex in any way, but look rather trivial. Time to talk to Joe and look at these commits together and see what's going on. Is that really such a troubling proposition?
- eviks 3y agoSo troubling that you can't propose it cleanly: if you've already defined that "they really don't seem more complex in any way, but look rather trivial", why would you need to count? (another troubling sign is going for the order of magnitude assessments, and another minor point: you've mistakenly replaced volume of code with # of commits)
- jen20 3y agoSo why wasn’t the response after day 1 of the “tough bug” something like “hey, why don’t you pair with X to get to the bottom of it?”?
- samatman 3y agoIf you declare by fiat that every confirmation is confirmation bias, you've made knowledge impossible.
- eviks 3y agoWhat happens if you declare by fiat that every mention of confirmation bias is declaring by fiat that eveyr confirmation is biased?