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Confirmation bias

Curated Category: evidence-selection

Preferring information that confirms an existing belief while discounting conflicting evidence.

The text selects supportive claims and treats them as decisive, while contradictory facts are ignored, minimized, or reframed as irrelevant. This often appears in one-sided argument chains and selective quotation patterns.

Detection signals

  • Only supportive examples are presented.
  • Counterevidence is dismissed without direct engagement.
  • Argumentation repeatedly reinforces one prior assumption.

Caution notes

  • Do not mark it from one sentence alone.
  • Check whether omitted counterevidence may be outside the article scope.

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