Bias Quote by Jon Ronson

“Confirmation bias is our innate tendency to pay more attention to information that confirms our beliefs.[”

— Cindy Alvarez

“Confirmation bias is the tendency to see things in your environment that confirm your preconceived ideas and not see things that conflict with what…

— William Landay

As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness…

— Maajid Nawaz

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our…

— Kyle Hill

“when familiar labels are applied, supporting evidence becomes far more visible than counter-evidence in a psychological process known as confirmation bias.”

— Christopher Ryan

“[W]e have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore,…

— Wadsworth Publishing

“tendency to seek confirming evidence and ignore disconfirming evidence as “confirmation bias,” and it's as human as sex, sleep, and barbeque.”

— David DiSalvo

When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“The real trouble begins when confirmation bias distorts your active pursuit of facts.”

— David McRaney

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

“How often – I continue reflecting – is it that we see what we want to see, rather than what is really before our…

— John Dolan

“Confirmation bias is probably the single biggest problem in business, because even the most sophisticated people get it wrong. People go out and they’re…

— Chip Heath