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Evelyn Waugh and Confirmation Bias

The journalism website of the  Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, Storyboard, carries an article by Michael Fitzgerald that cites a brief episode of Scoop as an example of a phenomenon that should be avoided by future journalists. This is known as “confirmation bias:”  There’s … Continue reading

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