> This is not terribly surprising, but it’s nice to see some experimental confirmation. Not really being serious here, but this made me chuckle a bit, on an a

> This is not terribly surprising, but it’s nice to see some experimental confirmation. Not really being serious here, but this made me chuckle a bit, on an article about fake news, etc. The sentence above literally reads like confirmation bias happening in real time, the way you phrased it. I'm not saying you are guilty of it here, the phrasing just jumped out at me - and is a good example of the kind of thought, that when we have it, ought to trigger our inner skeptic :P