Correction: Cognitive Biases Defined Simply
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Concepts
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 28 July 2026
The exact change
The article presented the backfire effect (corrections reliably strengthening the original belief) as an established, general finding.
Updated the description to reflect that later replications found backfiring to be rare, with corrections usually working as intended.
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
The original backfire-effect research has substantially failed to replicate at scale, a well-documented case in the replication-crisis literature. Correction updates the claim to the current evidence rather than adding new sources.
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