Filter Bubbles & More
FILTER BUBBLES? Conformation Bias? Blame GAME?
This week we discussed how the world around us is being filtered to meet our likes and expectations, instead of challenging us by letting us see the whole picture. I never thought about how social media uses algorithms to show me items that I like more frequently than what I dislike, or that two people can search the same topic on google and yet be given completely different search results. These filtered views of reality are in fact making us see a one sides world. We are now only seeing items we want to see, further enacting our conformation biases that our views and opinions are right because all we are seeing are items that correlate to our way of thinking. These biases are also telling us that our side of the story is right and the other side who disagrees with us is wrong, when in reality there may not be a true right/wrong relationship if we could in fact see the whole picture.
This week we discussed how the world around us is being filtered to meet our likes and expectations, instead of challenging us by letting us see the whole picture. I never thought about how social media uses algorithms to show me items that I like more frequently than what I dislike, or that two people can search the same topic on google and yet be given completely different search results. These filtered views of reality are in fact making us see a one sides world. We are now only seeing items we want to see, further enacting our conformation biases that our views and opinions are right because all we are seeing are items that correlate to our way of thinking. These biases are also telling us that our side of the story is right and the other side who disagrees with us is wrong, when in reality there may not be a true right/wrong relationship if we could in fact see the whole picture.
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