Confirmation bias

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Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses, independently of whether they are true. (via alexiagrace)

I’d always suspected this was true.

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    Does this mean that building a hypothesis is a bad idea?