The corollary to this is that the evidence you should be most skeptical about is stuff that AGREES with your position, because it is most likely to mislead you
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this applies to so much in life
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*You* will usually be misled. When *I* do that, I am usually right.
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This conforms to my priors. Everyone should accept this.
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Sir. Yes Sir.
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This agrees with my preconceptions. Uh oh.
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Closely related: confirmation bias and paradigm blindness. Even being aware of these phenomena, it is still remarkably easy to not be captured by them.
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We have seen a lot of this in the great
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