A state law signed Feb. 28, 2025, removes gender identity as a protected status from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, leaving ...

it's crucial. However, confirmation bias might be getting in your way, and the kicker is that you may not even know it. "With confirmation bias, we basically see what we want to see," says Dr ...

Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs or values. People display this bias when they select ...

This story originally appeared in the Election print issue, in stands November 2024. It has not been updated and some ...

Confirmation bias abounds: If you’re one of the ubiquitous confident Republicans, you see evidence to back up your theory. The same is true for both current strands of Democrats: the worriers ...

I particularly enjoy the Opinion section. Since the start of President Trump’s second term, I have seen more cases of confirmation bias than I can ever recall. Regular Opinion columns and ...

One type of bias that affects our view of the stories and news we come across is confirmation bias. This is when we favour ideas or beliefs that we already have rather than challenging them.