If you have an existing belief about something, you go in search of evidence that supports that belief, which further reinforces the initial belief.
If you find contradictory evidence to your belief, your mind creates a reason for it to be discarded…Fake news, inaccurate tests, lack of experience of the person sharing.
NOBODY LIKES BEING WRONG
REPETITION LEGITAMISES
social media makes these opinions worse by filtering what we see. and helping us avoid other points of view.
Because of the compounding effect of confirmation bias, it results in very stable opinions that the sufferers are extremely confident about…..
“people who support trump are idiots”
“people who support Biden hate true Americans”
“businessmen are evil and just take from the poor”