Confirmation Bias
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"Confirmation bias" refers to the tendency that people have to start with the conclusion and then try to conform all the facts to the theory in a favourable way, instead of weighing all the evidence and being led to this conclusion. This leaves the person with an argument that proves so much that it actually proves nothing.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Doug Powell, Holman QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics (Nashville, TN: Holman Reference, 2006), 281.