OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 21326

confirmation bias

Meanings (ES + gloss)
sesgo de confirmación
A cognitive bias towards confirmation of the hypothesis under study; a psychological tendency to look for and accept information which supports one's values and worldview and reject that which conflicts with it.
Days after this interview, on 12 February this year, fighting broke out between US troops and pro-Assad forces just outside Qamishli. Confirmation bias is rarely so fast, or so unn…
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