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* drawing a conclusion not from evidence but from what one wants to observe | * drawing a conclusion not from evidence but from what one wants to observe | ||
** seeing only what you want to see | ** seeing only what you want to see | ||
* confirmation bias impacts all areas of human thought, including | |||
** scientists who ignore or deny contrary evidence | |||
** politicians who take only one side of a political question even against evidence that negates it | |||
** historians who are biased toward certain historical outcomes | |||
* origins of the idea of confirmation bias | |||
** Aesop's fable: Fox and the Grapes, which is where we get the expression, "sour grapes" ("oh well, those grapes are probably sour") | |||
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** Biblical stories | |||
** David Hume | |||
=== Fallacies and logical tricks === | === Fallacies and logical tricks === | ||