Quote by Jon Ronson

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.

— Jon Ronson

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

— Criss Jami

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

— Cindy Alvarez

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

— David McRaney

“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

“My bias is that it does exist. But I would never say that I know that. Until I prove it.”

— Mary Roach

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

— Christopher Ryan

“In the intelligence community, a rumor was almost as good as a confirmation.”

— Kenneth Eade

“Sometimes what is in front of you and what you are seeing isn’t really so. It can, in fact, be quite deceptive.”

— Ella Frank

“Do not believe all that you hear and see. Always check the original source of information.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.”

— Will Storr

“Sometimes a person’s first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.”

— Sara Sheridan