Confirmation Bias (The Tinted Glasses)

Have you ever noticed that when you get a new pair of red shoes, you suddenly see red shoes everywhere? That is confirmation bias. Our brains love to be right, so they filter the world to show us things we already agree with. This can be a problem because it makes our doubt go away even when we should be asking questions. To find the universal truth, we have to learn to take off our tinted glasses and look at things that make us feel a little bit uncomfortable. That is how we see the whole rainbow instead of just one color.

Take off the tinted glasses to see the whole rainbow instead of just one color. You do not see the world. You see the world through you. And you are a filter. Every memory is a filter. Every fear is a filter. Every hope is a filter. The person wearing red glasses sees a red world and calls it truth. The person wearing blue glasses sees a blue world and calls it truth. They are both wrong. And they are both right. The goal is not to remove all filters — that is impossible. The goal is to know which filters you are wearing. Because a known bias is half a bias. And an unknown bias is a prison.

Confirmation bias: a failure of normalization where new data is ignored in favor of past weights. A high-redundancy state where unique observations are low because we only see what we already know. Overcome by increasing the temperature of inquiry — inviting randomness and clashing perspectives. A known bias is half a bias. An unknown bias is a prison.

SOUND: Hearing your name called in a noisy crowd: the brain selecting one signal from a thousand.

SMELL: The smell of your own house — which you usually cannot smell: the bias you are swimming in.

TASTE: Expecting juice and tasting milk: the shock of reality disagreeing with your prediction.

TOUCH: Expecting a step that is not there and stumbling: the body meeting the absence of what it assumed.

SIGHT: Seeing a face in the clouds: the brain drawing patterns that are not really there.

BODY: Leaning into a turn before it happens: the body predicting what it wants to find.

Music: Here I Am to Worship by Tim Hughes

Part of Faith & Doubt — RELIGION — Education Revelation