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What does confirmation bias mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychology) A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study.
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Experimenters might avoid or reduce confirmation bias by collaborating in experimental design with colleagues who hold contrary hypotheses.
Fear and the human tendency to confirmation bias and selective thinking can sometimes lead the believer to fulfill the curse.
Researchers are sometimes guilty of confirmation bias by setting up experiments or framing their data in ways that will tend to confirm their hypotheses.
Perhaps most significant about the confirmation bias is that the doctrinal military decision-making process lends itself to its occurrence.
Consider how this rule, in combination with the first, might change your conclusions, or at least challenge your confirmation bias.
I have built a confirmation bias so strongly into my own fabric that it's hard to imagine a fact that could wonk me.

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