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Friday, August 6, 2010

News in Brief: Scientists Disprove "Confirmation Bias"

A Solipsist Exclusive

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND ENGLAND--An interdisciplinary team of university researchers announced today that they had conclusively disproved the existence of "confirmation bias." The hypothetical phenomenon--in which researchers focus on results that confirm hypotheses and exclude results that refute them--has plagued fields from medicine and engineering to the social sciences. The team of local university researchers was overjoyed by their results. "We had long suspected that 'confirmation bias' was nothing but a myth," explained lead investigator Dr. Harold MacPherson. "Now, we've finally proven it."

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