To me, confirmation bias is so common that it happens to all of us without our notice (even you know it so well that it can exist). You may not agree that it happens to you even when people point it out to you explicitly like I did in my post What’s confirmation bias in objective experiment? I am pretty sure we all have it. Why? | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum
To be honest, I am really surprised and disappointed to find out that even the supposed-to-be objective audio science based review forum (ASR) doesn’t even know what confirmation bias is as they use the term many many times to defence their beliefs.
They misuse the term in order to protect their beliefs. A few posts from them actually show that they don’t even know the usage difference between the verb “indicate” and “prove” in peer-reviewed research paper (I can provide the link to you if you want to see).
Some topics are taboo to them. Whenever people bring out such topics (e.g. Hi-Res music, upsampling, etc…), they simply give out misleading pseudo science claims to support their wrong beliefs or just stop you right the way to avoid any more meaning discussion about the taboo topics.
Have a look of this link What’s confirmation bias in objective experiment? I am pretty sure we all have it. Why? | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum on ASR. The post was stopped just a few minutes after I posted it earlier yesterday as they don’t want too see any more discussion about it.
They even attempt to insult people (who have different view points with supporting facts) and block them from the thread in order to these people feel unease and hope these people would go away. This is a good example: Serious Question: How can DAC’s have a SOUND SIGNATURE if they measure as transparent? Are that many confused? | Page 438 | Audio Science Review (ASR) Forum)
I am not sure if they really think I am mentally blocked or they just demonstrated another psychological phenomenon known as Cognitive Dissonance, i.e. just to deny any fact that is not compatible with their beliefs.
However, one thing for sure is that, unfortunate, I am not such a guy who give up easily. I just created my blog (Debunk Pseudo Scientific Claims a few days ago to see if I can be any help to fix this issue in ASR. I knew the chance is close to zero but I will keep on doing it until I can’t.
I have no objection with what they did to their site. It is THEIR site. They can delete my posts or even my account. However, given their status, I don’t want them to keep on distributing wrong concepts, ideas, and interpretations based on so called unbiased scientific claims.
We already have way too many pseudo claims in the world we need to debunk. Why they keep on creating more and more daily especially from a supposed-to-be “objective scientific base” discussion forum. To me, a lot of groupthink: is happening in ASR. It is the source of all these pseudo science claims in ASR.
I understand some people couldn’t think critically and independently (sorry to say that but it is a fact IMO), they love to look for help from experts. Why these so-called experts keep on giving these people with biased information and attempting to repackage these biased information under the “unbiased objective science umbrella”? Do they have any hidden agenda? I don’t know…
I have no problem if they state that’s their views but not as facts. Really, please don’t, it is just your view.