From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9547 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, August 19 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9547 Today's Subjects: ----------------- We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! ["Loweâs Order Update"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2022 05:07:47 -0400 From: "Loweâs Order Update" Subject: We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! We have been trying to reach you - Please respond! http://harborz.za.com/jJyrHU2lU6rNikKhqL0_P3IIGadh1psFap-26coBIK5lgWV0hg http://harborz.za.com/UBwvwdWdcHj5lnXQIM5jhphzgAie8zBVXJ0c0AfKDkE53phNNw onfirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed. Confirmation bias is an example of a cognitive bias. Confirmation bias (or confirmatory bias) has also been termed myside bias.[Note 1] "Congeniality bias" has also been used. Confirmation biases are effects in information processing. They differ from what is sometimes called the behavioral confirmation effect, commonly known as self-fulfilling prophecy, in which a person's expectations influence their own behavior, bringing about the expected result. Some psychologists restrict the term "confirmation bias" to selective collection of evidence that supports what one already believes while ignoring or rejecting evidence that supports a different conclusion. Others apply the term more broadly to the tendency to preserve one's existing beliefs when searching for evidence, interpreting it, or recalling it from memory.[Note 2] Confirmation bias is a result of automatic, unintentional strategies rather than deliberate deception. Confirmation bias cannot be avoided or eliminated, but only managed by improving education and critical thinking skills. Confirmation bias is a broad construct that has a number of possible explanations, namely: hypothesis-testing by falsification, hypothesis testing by positive test strategy, and information processing expla ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9547 **********************************************