Confirmation bias describes the tendency that we as humans seek out, favor and pay more attention to those information that confirms our pre-made assumptions and beliefs and we selectively ignore information that disconfirms our beliefs.
When people would like something – like an idea or hypothesis – to be true, they tend to believing it to be true. This bias can cause that people will stop gathering further information when the pieces of evidence gathered so far are confirming the pre-made views and hypothesis one would like to be true.
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