Congruence Bias 🔁
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Hey,
Today, We will be talking about the Congruence Bias 🔁.
What is it?
You would prefer to repeat the same thing achieve some result (which you already know of) & would rather NOT do it the other ways because it might challenge your philosophy.
Example -
One of those situations where we instantly jump to conclusions?
“How did I miss that bug? I am not sure why this happened.”
Where does it occur?
The Congruence Bias happens when we exclude an experiment’s negative consequences.
In testing, we develop test cases to validate that some functionality works according to the specifications and neglect to validate that the functionality doesn’t work in ways that it should not.
Why do I need to know?
You and I have been in all those scenarios where we didn’t have much interest or lacked time and hence, we jumped onto the conclusion for a certain experiment.
Turns out, It wasn’t true. You need to be thorough and think through them.
Takeaways:-
Calculating a conclusion by including negative test cases >>>> jumping to conclusions.
References & Studies:-
http://www.msrblog.com/science/psychology/congruence-bias.html
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