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Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>More successful predictions of my <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/BoundedReflectivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoundedReflectivism</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/EpistemicIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EpistemicIdentity</span></a> article from 2022?</p><p>From about 2017 or 2018, I reviewed evidence suggesting that reflective thinking often helps, but may even hinder our judgment depending on factors like whether we are reasoning based on shared identities and epistemic standards (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">doi.org/10.1111/meta.12534</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>).</p><p>Years later Robb Willer et al. solicited ideas for debiasing political judgments. After years of testing 25 different interventions, their results are published in <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a>: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh4764" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.1126/science.adh476</span><span class="invisible">4</span></a></p><p>They found that biased evaluations of politicized facts were impacted by both<br>- REFLECTION (on potential misperceptions of undemocratic actions) and<br>- shared IDENTITY cues (which could help *or* hinder!)</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/decisionScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decisionScience</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/metaphilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metaphilosophy</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/JDM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDM</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/debiasing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debiasing</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/chatBot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatBot</span></a></p>