Quote by Product School

“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

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

— David McRaney

“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

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

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Valerie Tarico

“Contrary to the rules of philosophers of science, who advise testing hypotheses by trying to refute them, people (and scientists, quite often) seek data…

— Daniel Kahneman

“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

“No data yet," he answered. "It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Data puts a stamp on your assumptions when they are right.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no…

— Peter Medawar

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

— David DiSalvo