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• physics created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: fact

Confirmation bias limits objective analysis

Humans naturally seek out, favor, and recall information that validates their pre-existing hypotheses. Overcoming this cognitive flaw requires discipline, demonstrating why First principles thinking strips assumptions.¹

Footnotes

1. Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation bias. ↩