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Confirmation Bias meaning and definition :
Confirmation Bias. A tendency to search for and interpret information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions. It is a phenomenon wherein decision makers actively seek out and assign more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, and ignore or assign little weight evidence that could disconfirm their hypothesis. “Facts” are only true if they confirm what they already believe, all else is nonsense, error, or outright lies.
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