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Confirmation Bias

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Confirmation Bias	comment	Confirmation Bias is the fallacy of lending extra weight to information and arguments that confirm your own beliefs while disregarding or downplaying evidence that disputes them. This bias comes in several forms: Seeking evidence for a belief one already holds, or eagerly accepting it, while disregarding or downplaying contradictory evidence. Often known by the ironic name "Proof by Selected Instances". Interpreting ambiguous information with a focus on how it favors one's own beliefs. Rationalizing contradictory evidence in a way that still affirms one's own beliefs. In fandom, the first of these three types of Confirmation Bias is the most common whenever any media product follows a distinct philosophical, political, or religious slant. People who agree will often laud it despite its flaws, while people who disagree will often lambast it regardless of its merits. Having this type of Confirmation Bias doesn't mean the audience is unreasonable, even though they might not like your particular work. A work supporting principles contradicting the audience's ethical or moral code might make them unable to respond favorably no matter how well-written it is. A book advocating the genocide of one ethnic group won't find many supporters among that groupâ€¦ or the majority of people who value human life in general. The viewpoint of the work may be so detestable to a specific audience that the message may be more important to that audience than the beauty of the cinematography or brilliance of the acting. A work displaying a crucial message to the audience might make them forgive its flaws in favor of the ideals, like how people who believe in pacifism and universal compassion will likely like a film about the importance of peace and love more. However, people are usually more objectively critical of the content of media they agree with, as they don't have anything to object to ethically. When criticizing a work whose message they despise, the ideology might completely overshadow the style, ironically making their problems with the content less noticeable. However, many people neither agree nor disagree with a message before hearing an argument they find convincing. Many examples here are, at least a small part, meant to convince the undecided rather than change someone's mind. Even if a work isn't for converting ideological outsiders, the creator could still have designed it to settle disputes within their group. This phenomenon isn't limited to positive beliefs, as people can be just as prone to only accepting evidence against a position they hate. Confirmation Bias doesn't mean everyone with a given viewpoint will like something because it follows that view. Some may criticize it for not doing a good enough job of persuading the undecided or those with the opposite view. Contrast Don't Shoot the Message, which is about disliking a work because of its style even if one may agree with its message. Compare the related fallacies No True Scotsman, Hitler Ate Sugar, and Moving the Goalposts. A form of Selective Obliviousness; see also Opinion Myopia. Taken to extremes, this way of thinking will result in a Captain Oblivious.
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Confirmation Bias / int_144ea6e4	comment	Othello: Scholars have suggested for centuries that Iago's lies about Desdemona's infidelity are actually pretty flimsy; the tragedy comes from the fact that Othello is so willing to believe them.
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Confirmation Bias / int_22211d68	comment	One episode of Bones has an anthropologist as the victim. One of his biggest customers is a man who runs a creationist museum, which purports to disprove human evolution and supports intelligent design. Sweets quickly points out that most of the fossils he purchased from the victim actually disprove the man's timeline and as such aren't anywhere to be found. Sweets outright accuses him of buying the fossils to destroy them to support his beliefs, to which he doesn't have a good answer.
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Confirmation Bias / int_23bc247b	comment	In-universe, this is the most prevalent bias that the narrator Loose Change is guilty of in Equestria: A History Revealed. Loose Change holds the belief that everything that happens in history ties into a vast conspiracy, with Princess Celestia as the evil mastermind of it all. This is despite mountains of evidence to the contrary showing that Celestia is actually a benevolent ruler, and Loose Change goes out of her way to ignore information that contradicts her claims. The few times that Loose Change calls the rest of the "idiot historians" correct is only when they match her beliefs. Loose Change's terrible reasoning skills in her essay, however, are Played for Laughs, as the fic's author intentionally made Loose Change out to be an Unreliable Narrator.
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Confirmation Bias / int_3148086e	comment	Years and Years. As the YMMV page lampshades, the way you view the series pretty much depends entirely on whether or not you agree with the political opinions of Russell T. Davies. You'll think it's either a terrifying look into the future or a laughable tantrum against people Davies disagrees with.
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Confirmation Bias / int_32233a78	comment	And I Drew This, by Ozy and Millie creator Dana Simpson.
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Confirmation Bias / int_37ee9dd3	comment	Politically themed comic strips, from Doonesbury to Mallard Fillmore to Prickly City to The Boondocks: if you agree with them, they're hilarious; if you don't, they're poison to the mind. If you don't have a dog in the fight on either side, then you're probably just skipping over them all to see what Frazz is up to today. Ditto for The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee. It's questionable if even the people it's allegedly preaching to find it funny. Comments on the comics blog The Comics Curmudgeon seem to indicate not... And I Drew This, by Ozy and Millie creator Dana Simpson. The Bad Reporter wasn't originally this — a cartoon from the early 2000s mocked the "comic-book-ization" of the media and argued that both sides of the political aisle were engaging in demonization, without particularly insulting the followers of either side so much as their leaders. A cartoon a few years later parodied i am sam with undecided voters in place of the mentally retarded. Not trying to win any converts now, are we, Mr. Asmussen? Same goes for "alt-comic" strips like This Modern World, which are placed on weekly/monthly free newspapers for certain cities which have a significant liberal population.
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Confirmation Bias / int_3f6951a	comment	Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me famously followed the filmmaker as he lived on nothing but McDonald's for thirty days, eating everything on the menu at least once and super-sizing every time it is offered, suffering significant health and weight issues as a result. This appears to have been greatly aided by Spurlock suddenly changing to a sedentary lifestyle, eating far more than he needed to, and sleeping a lot, as no one has been able to reproduce his results. Spurlock did all he could to reach the conclusion he wanted to reach, while many other studies have shown that combining McDonald's food with an active lifestyle and not overeating does not lead to health or weight issues. Spurlock himself tries to justify this in the documentary by claiming he was replicating the non-active lifestyle of the average American, but many still accuse him and the film of being disingenuous at best, outright lies at worst.
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Confirmation Bias / int_48a3d632	comment	Spider-Man (1967): When Peter Parker comes in with some pictures of the Green Goblin stealing a magical tome, J. Jonah Jameson fits this evidence into his existing viewpoint:
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Confirmation Bias / int_4d5b6107	comment	The Usual Suspects: Confirmation bias is discussed by Verbal Kint, who is interrogated by Inspector Kujan at a police investigation. Later, the audience will discover that Verbal not only discussed it, but exploited it.
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Confirmation Bias / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The word "clapter" was coined to describe the latter effect in TV — when an audience applauds a joke more than actually laughing at it. It's an accusation often leveled at the more political years of The Daily Show after Jon Stewart took the helm. (Its synonym "clappy humor" has an entry in the Urban Dictionary.) There are great honking buttloads of "comedians" who feed on clapter. Not surprisingly, they tend to disappear whenever the political winds shift in their favor. One unused stand-up bit from Seinfeld is about this. "To comedians, the truth is just bad material. The last thing you want is for people to just be thinking, "Hey, he's... right. He's a really, really accurate guy."
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Confirmation Bias / int_59215319	comment	With the heavy focus on rumors and conspiracy theories, Confirmation Bias plays a big part in the story for Persona 2. The perhaps most damning instance is with Maya Okamura where as rumors start to become real she thoroughly digs into her own wild beliefs to affirm them, finding whatever she can to support them while ignoring anything that says otherwise, creating a self-fulfilling and toxic spiral. This culminates in her actively trying to make certain things true just to further indulge in her bias, even if it means the end of the world.
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Confirmation Bias / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4, with its themes of finding the truth and Arc Words "People see what they want to see, and believe what they want to believe", naturally deals with this during its story. This is how the Investigation Team suspect the wrong person for the murders twice. The first time, a suspect kills a teacher and turns himself in to the police, taking credit for all the murders. Chie remembers him acting creepy towards Yukiko earlier that year (which did happen) and ties that in to a motive for kidnapping her. But Kanji and Rise were also kidnapped. Yosuke then remembers how the suspect had once ranted about biker gangs and Rise had seen him around her grandmother's tofu shop, leading them to jump to the conclusion that he must have kidnapped them too. All of this blinds them to the obvious: the current victim had a completely different cause of death to the first two, and the current suspect shows no knowledge of the TV World. The second time, the team is emotional over the kidnapping and supposed death of someone close to them, and has a suspect who's admitted to the kidnappings and displays an unhinged desire to "save" people. The knowledge that the killer's supernatural methods might be undetectable by the police leads them to seriously consider a Vigilante Execution. The protagonist must choose their responses very carefully to talk them out of it, by stalling long enough for them to realize their premise for suspecting this person as the killer has numerous holes. It hits again in the ending, and is aimed at the player as well as the cast. It's easy to assume after the killer is caught, and after fighting a giant supernatural being (with a unique boss theme) seeking to bring order to humanity, that the story is over and all loose ends are wrapped up. It isn't, and they're not.
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Confirmation Bias / int_5cbd8882	comment	The audience of Real Time with Bill Maher have been accused of heckling guests who fall on the opposite side of the host.
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Confirmation Bias / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power tackles the Wolves Always Howl at the Moon trope when it introduces a werewolf character. As he explains, wolves howl a lot, and occasionally there's a moon, but since wolves howling at the moon is such a romanticized image, people only notice when it happens.
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Confirmation Bias / int_6a8d182d	comment	Spenser has occasionally discussed confirmation bias regarding police investigations, noting that cops tend to go with the simplest explanation for a crime. However, he has also pointed out that the simplest explanation really is the correct one most of the time, and for the few times it isn't, the fact is that the police always have lots of cases they're trying to clear (and there's always another eleven or more about to show up), so they don't have time to do an in-depth investigation of a crime that to all appearances has been solved.
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Confirmation Bias / int_6ab76f31	comment	A significant factor in the plot of My Cousin Vinny. The Police investigating the shooting hear one of their suspects say "I shot the clerk?" and interpret it not as a question, but as a statement.
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Confirmation Bias / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	In the Myth Adventures novel M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Skeeve is continually examining the books of the gambling club he won in a poker game, looking for evidence that the manager is skimming money off the top. One of his bodyguards points out that the problem with what he's doing is that "if you look for evidence of graft long enough, you're going to find it whether it's there or not." So he gives up the constant audits. Turns out, the manager was skimming off the top, but the point was still made.
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Confirmation Bias / int_7884ec15	comment	One unused stand-up bit from Seinfeld is about this. "To comedians, the truth is just bad material. The last thing you want is for people to just be thinking, "Hey, he's... right. He's a really, really accurate guy."
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Confirmation Bias / int_7988cb68	comment	Confirmation bias drives the mindset of the Reapers in the Mass Effect series. They were created by an advanced Artificial Intelligence who became convinced that synthetic life would inevitably attack and destroy organic life, and created the Reapers as a way to supposedly "preserve" organic life in a synthetic form. The idea that organics and synthetics could co-exist peacefully (as demonstrated by EDI, the geth, and [in Mass Effect: Andromeda] SAM) never occurred to them or were considered one-off anomalies every time the situation popped up.
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Confirmation Bias / int_86dd1433	comment	Lampshaded by Marn in the finale of Knights of the Old Republic, who calls out the Jedi Covenant for Dramatically Missing the Point of the vision of the future that kicked off the plot because it didn't line up with their extreme fundamentalist view of the Force and what it meant to be a Jedi; it's painfully obvious the Force was warning them of what would happen if they continued down their path (i.e., they would all die and a powerful Sith Lord would arise), but the Covenant instead chose to interpret it as a warning of what would happen if they didn't become more extreme, and in doing so, they seal their fates.
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Confirmation Bias / int_885e1bec	comment	Discussed in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: to make Hermione a better researcher, Harry puts her through the "2-4-6 task", an experiment created by Peter Wason, the real-life psychologist who coined the term "Confirmation Bias": Harry writes down and folds up a "rule" that certain triplets of numbers follow and tasks Hermione with figuring out what it is. Hermione can say as many triplets of numbers as she likes and Harry will say "Yes" or "No" depending on if they follow the rule or not. As a starting point, Harry says that the triplet "2, 4, 6" follows the rule. Hermione tests the triplets "4, 6, 8", "10, 12, 14", "1, 3, 5", and "-3, -1, 1" and is told "Yes" for all of them. Hermione guesses that the rule is that each number is increased by two. Harry doesn't answer and points out that less than 20% of people can guess the correct answer. Hermione then tests "2, 5, 8" and "10, 20, 30" and also gets yes for both, leading her to revise her answer to "each number must increase the same amount each time". Harry gives her the paper, and to her shock, the actual rule is "Three real numbers in increasing order, lowest to highest". Harry then points out that Hermione had only come up with triplets that would confirm the hypothesis she already had in her mind and was content to end the experiment without getting a single "No" response, leading her to come up with a result much more specific than the real one.
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Confirmation Bias / int_8f25225c	comment	Danganronpa: A consistent plot point in each killing game is that Monokuma believes that despair and self-preservation will overcome the players enough to kill without remorse. Of course, he doesn't count the "incentives" he gives such as threatening family members, sending out a virus that makes people insane, or making players kill themselves to ensure somebody dies on time as contributing to these outcomes.
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Confirmation Bias / int_923dd091	comment	The CollegeHumor sketch "If Google Was a Guy": In part 3, a woman searches Google (who is in the form of a regular guy) about vaccines causing autism. Google comes up with a million results that say they don't, and one source that says they do. The woman snatches the latter result with a smarmy "I knew it!" It happened again a few videos later, with another woman coming in and searching for "Climate change is not real." Google responds with a massive pile of letters and the retort "Climate change is real." The woman then adopted the same smarmy tone and said (while making Air Quotes) "Climate change is not real," narrowing it down once again to a single entry, which she snatched and swaggered out.
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Confirmation Bias / int_96773bf2	comment	The Number of the Beast: Invoked specifically by Zeb in his backstory. Specifically, he carefully structured his Ph.D. thesis to "show" that biases held by all the members of his doctoral committee were widely held to be correct (crossed with Appeal to Obscurity, as he pulled a lot of selective quotations out of materials that hadn't been translated into English as part of his "research").
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Confirmation Bias / int_9bb76467	comment	The Now Show can veer into this territory, although it's usually more about cynicism of any politician or celebrity than about conservatives and liberals.
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Confirmation Bias / int_9bc6699b	comment	Michael D. O'Brien's Children of the Last Days series has a similar effect, being essentially a Catholic version of the former (without a Rapture, which is not Catholic dogma). Regardless of the writing, it comes strongest to those who tend to share the author's "traditional Christian" views.
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Confirmation Bias / int_9d682091	comment	A Certain Droll Hivemind: Sometimes, Misaka-11111 will claim that "nearly everyone I know" agrees with her on a certain point; for example, her clothes are not weird and have no trouble fitting, because nearly everyone she knows finds Tokiwadai medium-size girls uniform fine casual wear. She deliberately ignores the blatant bias of asking for opinions from ten thousand fellow identical clones. She mostly does this when she's especially annoyed at people asking her to act normal.
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Confirmation Bias / int_a78cc92f	comment	The Chick Tracts, although even most people of the same view think he's insane. This is especially noticeable with the sources cited in the tracts. At least 90% of them are published by Chick himself. Which means he is pretty much creating his own research material.
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Confirmation Bias / int_b0fc9724	comment	On Saturday Night Live in 2012, Seth Meyers recommended that both presidential candidates stop "telling us stories about people you met at your rally who happen to agree with your positions. That's like Bret Michaels saying, 'At my last concert, someone yelled 'Poison rules!'"
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Confirmation Bias / int_b1383aee	comment	Rather refreshingly averted with Saving Christmas. Producer and star Kirk Cameron seemed convinced that no matter what the critical appraisal, the film would find an audience with hard-core Christians looking for a good Christmastime flick. However, the film's agenda of endorsing the commercial or hedonistic aspects of Christmas rather than the loving spiritual ones caused most Christians to hate the film too.
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Confirmation Bias / int_b3dea8b4	comment	Same goes for "alt-comic" strips like This Modern World, which are placed on weekly/monthly free newspapers for certain cities which have a significant liberal population.
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Confirmation Bias / int_be03a5ee	comment	Left Behind is largely only liked by people who already believe in the Rapture. However, the author's beliefs regarding the rapture, the afterlife, and who is "worthy" is very old testament and controversially exclusive (the "only rapture-believing Christians who have said the phrase 'I accept Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior' at some point"note which inexplicably includes the Pope and "you only get one chance if you've never heard of the Bible until then" rules being the most obvious) make a lot of mainstream Christians uncomfortable because it reeks of Disproportionate Retribution.
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Confirmation Bias / int_ccf875f7	comment	In the Criminal Minds episode "Profiler, Profiled", Gideon and Reid discuss the fact that the detective who arrested Agent Morgan for murder already suspected Morgan of the crime before requesting an "anonymous" profile of the likely killer and then applied the profile directly to Morgan. Reid specifically points out all the parts of the profile the detective ignored because they were inaccurate when considering Agent Morgan as a suspect. Snarky fans and critics might point out that the team themselves are just as guilty of this in their own way, frequently smashing through the doors of suspects who happen to fit their often-times sketchy profiles (and occasionally rejecting suspects because they don't fit the profile, regardless of other evidence) — of course, since it's the heroes, they are almost always in the right.
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Confirmation Bias / int_f2504c75	comment	Behind the Sandrat Hoax: Dr. Bancroff firmly refuses to believe that sandrats survive without water or that eating one can prevent dehydration. While conducting tests that support this claim, he deprives captive sandrats of their regular food, which, combined with their digestive system, lets the sandrats go without water. He spends the next four years citing this test while denying that people are surviving in the desert because of sandrats despite their stories offering no other explanation for how they survived. Dr. Cathcart publishes an article that derides Bancroff as an administrator with no scientific imagination and writes that "[[I]]n science, theories are based on facts, not vice-versa." Bancroff replies by firing Cathcart.
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Confirmation Bias / int_f59e218	comment	The film Rock: It's Your Decision heavily engages in this by turning the protagonist into a mouthpiece for the filmmaker's views. According to this film, all artists within the broad spectrum of "rock" music engage in drugs, promiscuity, and Satanism, and many of them sing openly about this (and there is no such thing as "metaphor"). Also, the rock beat apparently "controls" you by compelling you to dance along, tap your feet, snap your fingers, etc., with the implication that it can also compel you to commit more insidious acts; and this controlling nature is apparently something unique to this type of music. There are hardly any counter-arguments presented, and most of them come from a straw jerk who, nonetheless, often sounds more reasonable than the protagonist.
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Confirmation Bias / int_fa6e9fed	comment	Minimum Security was mostly only published in alternative newspapers where extreme views are more common. As such, it is no surprise to see a comic strip where everyone ranging from religious people, scientists, businessmen, and people who simply eat meat are depicted as evil and stupid. The main character doesn't eat meat and advocates the destruction of society, thus, she is smarter.
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Equestria: A History Revealed / Fan Fic / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
Professor Arc / Fan Fic / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
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Denial / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
The Usual Suspects / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
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Lorien Legacies / int_f0fc6873	type	Confirmation Bias
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