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Accuracy in social judgment does not exclude the potential for bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2022

Jonathan B. Freeman Open the ORCID record for Jonathan B. Freeman [Opens in a new window] ,
Kerri L. Johnson  and
Steven J. Stroessner
Jonathan B. Freeman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. jon.freeman@columbia.edu
Kerri L. Johnson
Affiliation:
Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Steven J. Stroessner
Affiliation:
Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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Abstract

Cesario claims that all bias research tells us is that people “end up using the information they have come to learn as being probabilistically accurate in their daily lives” (sect. 5, para. 4). We expose Cesario's flawed assumptions about the relationship between accuracy and bias. Through statistical simulations and empirical work, we show that even probabilistically accurate responses are regularly accompanied by bias.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e75
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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