The Good Doctor asks:
What do you think "confirmation bias" means?
Confirmation bias to me, before I look at any dictionary of these sorts of terms (because that would be Cheating!):
The tendency to view data supporting your initial opinion with more confidence and to find more fault in the integrity of data not supporting your initial opinion, even to the point of discounting it entirely at times, while overlooking similar faults with what you perceive as supporting data.
Is this a test? Just as I was fairly sure to myself when I posted #2 of this thread that I was on the right track, and thus buried in a cloud of confirmation bias there, so it is here as well!
- xongsmith, 5.7d