Ask HN: How do you deal with confirmation bias?

When I ask myself where I might be biased, I get no answer and assume all my current beliefs are unbiased. I understand that I may be wrong on some issues, but not because of bias, rather because of a lack of information. Science says that the essence of bias is exactly not knowing where you are biased.

I thought, maybe I have no biased beliefs, maybe I have somehow overcome them. But then I thought that to overcome bias, I would first need to realize that I am biased about question “x”. In that case, I should be able to recall moments when I recognized my bias, but I can’t. The only case I recalled was when I was in love with a girl and probably biased about whether she liked me.

I checked, there is a scientific consensus that confirmation bias is real, and the more important the issue, the higher the likelihood of bias.

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