Confirmation Bias Quotes

Confirmation Bias Quote of the day

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

Misguided good men are more dangerous than honest bad men. It is because they are seen as good that, in and by good conscience, the mob will always, stubbornly back them without question.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

Given the level of understanding and the fact that they believed already in a set of myths and superstitions, it was the easiest and fastest way to proceed.