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Why Googling your opinion can make it harder to change

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Your search engine is basically just a tailored echo chamber designed to validate the garbage theories you already decided were true. Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms your preexisting beliefs. You will ignore 99 academic studies to find the one sketchy blog post that says you're right.

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