{"id":1486,"date":"2011-08-13T22:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T06:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2011-08-13T22:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T06:28:33","slug":"confirmation-bias-confirmed-as-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation bias: confirmed as bias."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have this theory that &#8216;confirmation bias&#8217; is a load of BS, so I looked on the net and found, after careful search, some people who clearly agree with me. Most don&#8217;t, but they must be idiots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/2011\/08\/13\/confirmation-bias-confirmed-as-bias\/not-sure-if-joking-or-legitimately-doesnt-understand-confirmation-bias\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1487\" title=\"not-sure-if-joking-or-legitimately-doesnt-understand-confirmation-bias\" src=\"http:\/\/jarrodhart.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/not-sure-if-joking-or-legitimately-doesnt-understand-confirmation-bias.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/not-sure-if-joking-or-legitimately-doesnt-understand-confirmation-bias.png 552w, https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/not-sure-if-joking-or-legitimately-doesnt-understand-confirmation-bias-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this theory that &#8216;confirmation bias&#8217; is a load of BS, so I looked on the net and found, after careful search, some people who clearly agree with me. Most don&#8217;t, but they must be idiots. :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,24,26,27,28,31],"tags":[252,86,108,265,267,268,269,271,226,227],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprovincialscientist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}