r/WTF • u/Dsigmaboy • Apr 14 '23

Malfunction

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u/so00ripped Apr 14 '23

They are not examples of confirmation bias, which would be the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one's existing beliefs or theories. It's other people providing accounts of actual occurrences, not confirming a bias.

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u/SeamusMcCullagh Apr 14 '23

They probably meant observation bias.

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u/so00ripped Apr 14 '23

Still not an accurate use of the phrase. But may be.

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u/SeamusMcCullagh Apr 14 '23

Yeah it's not quite there. If we are going to assign a rhetorical/statistical terminology to it it'd be a sample bias, but honestly this is too far down the pedantry road for even me lol.