What is confirmation bias?
A) A tendency to seek information that confirms what we already think and ignores or downplays information that conflicts with what we think.
B) A tendency to affirm the beliefs of those around us, especially those of popular people or people in positions of power or authority.
C) A bias against information that we receive from people and sources associated with disempowered or marginalized groups.
D) A bias in favor of people who provide information that agrees with what we already believe, regardless of the person's credentials or reasoning.

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Confirmation bias is the psychological tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses, while giving disproportionately less consideration to alternative possibilities.

What Is Confirmation Bias