Quotes About Confirmation

no ha habido tiempo en la historia en donde la evidencia sólida de la ciencia confirme mejor la existencia de Dios que hoy día.

No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

Psychologists call this the confirmation bias

As philosopher Francis Bacon put it in 1620, "the human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion, collects any instances that confirm it, and though the contrary instances may be more numerous and more weighty, it either does not notice them or else rejects them, in order that this opinion will remain unshaken."46

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

What I tell you three times is true.

with his arms resting across the back. "We're witnesses

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

They are who we thought they were!

Although she had only started being a detective, Precious was well aware that you had to be able to show people something if you wanted them to believe it.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni nodded his head.

Confirmation Bias, which had been demonstrated time and again in numerous experiments. Once we formed an opinion or took a position, be it in politics, the worthiness of a television show, or global warming, we tended to filter new data, seizing on anything that agreed with our position and dismissing or ignoring anything contrary, no matter how valid. We would cling to our positions, even in the face of what should be incontrovertible evidence against them.

Confirmation bias. This is our tendency to seek out information that supports and reinforces our beliefs, and ignore or discount any information that is contrary to them. So we stick to our guns, even against overwhelming evidence that we're wrong.

They sayin Im back, I agree with that.

I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Conservative critics of Obama seized on his aspiration for 'empathy,' declaring it an invitation to judicial activism - as if empathy could not coexist with impartiality - and later made it a subtext of their confirmation complaints.

Synchronicities are such a delight—little messages from the Universe that we're on the right track!

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. 1 JOHN 2:5

Truthseeking, the desire to know the truth regardless of whether the truth aligns with the beliefs we currently hold, is not naturally supported by the way we process information. We might think of ourselves as open-minded and capable of updating our beliefs based on new information, but the research conclusively shows otherwise. Instead of altering our beliefs to fit new information, we do the opposite, altering our interpretation of that information to fit our beliefs.

But, while a group can function to be better than the sum of the individuals, it doesn't automatically turn out that way. Being in a group can improve our decision quality by exploring alternatives and recognizing where our thinking might be biased, but a group can also exacerbate our tendency to confirm what we already believe

That's why we naturally end up in echo chambers. The inside view feels especially good when it's sold as the outside view, in the guise of someone supposedly offering an objective perspective that merely confirms what you believe. But that only serves to amplify the inside view, strengthening your view of the world because it feels certified by others.

It doesn't take much for any of us to believe something. And once we believe it, protecting that belief guides how we treat further information relevant to the belief.