[Jdm-society] experimenter bias

[Mike Doherty]

A fascinating book on this issue is Ian Mitroff's  "The Subjective 
Side of Science." It dealt with reactions of scientists as the first 
moon rocks were being brought back by the Apollo missions.

  In a now pretty old book (Tweney, R. D., Doherty, M. E., & Mynatt, 
C. R.  (1981).  On Scientific Thinking. NY: Columbia University 
Press), we excerpted Mitroff's book, among other things, and 
discussed confirmation bias at length.
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