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Confirmation Bias is Hilarious But Expensive

The Political Orphanage

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The Confirmation Bias in Politics

"Apparently This Matters" is CNN Tech's weekly, offbeat look at the social world. Jarrett Bellini: I did a little bit of research on confirmation bias. He says when you put people that agree in the same room, it actually redshifts their opinion. Bellini: The antithetical antidote is the philosopher Carl Popper who said "nothing is falsifiable unless it is valuable scientific proposition"

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