Is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses.
My bias is that the whole stroke world knows nothing, I seek out and find multiple research articles each day that prove that.
My assumption is that the stroke world believes in 'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different'. They are constantly reinforced in this belief by looking at their patients and not keeping detailed records to be able to see commonalities.
To combat this from the Science Based Medicine blog;
Facts and rational arguments have no effect on a true believer. People
hear only what they want to hear. Most people refuse to listen to
anything that contradicts their beliefs. Their confirmation bias accepts
only confirming evidence to protect their ego from having to admit they
were wrong. And there’s a real danger in arguing with them. They will
come up with rationalizations that allow them to reject everything you
say, and that only serves to reinforce their beliefs. They come out of
an argument believing even more strongly than when they went in.
You could tell them that you are willing to change your mind, and
explain what it would take to make you change your mind. (Essentially the standards for
scientific proof: positive scientific studies that are well-designed and
replicated, leading to a scientific consensus of experts based on a
critical evaluation of all the published evidence).
Use the labels in the right column to find what you want. Or you can go thru them one by one, there are only 28,972 posts. Searching is done in the search box in upper left corner. I blog on anything to do with stroke.DO NOT DO ANYTHING SUGGESTED HERE AS I AM NOT MEDICALLY TRAINED, YOUR DOCTOR IS, LISTEN TO THEM. BUT I BET THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET YOU 100% RECOVERED. I DON'T EITHER, BUT HAVE PLENTY OF QUESTIONS FOR YOUR DOCTOR TO ANSWER.
Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.
I'm a former physical therapist the basis of whose education was on evidence-based practice. People aren't researching the right things, I think that's part of the problem. I was WRONG in that I thought I knew anything about how to recover someone. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG
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