Confirmation Bias

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"# Confirmation Bias Sixteen twenty. Francis Bacon sits in his study, candlelight making shadows dance across parchment. And he writes a sentence that should have changed everything: "The human understanding, when it has once adopted an opinion, draws all things else to support and agree with it." Four hundred years later? We're still doing exactly what he warned us about. We're still building elaborate castles out of evidence that confirms what we already believe... and calling it thinking. ..."