I love Darren Brown, but that particular con doesn't really exemplify confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a selective willingness believe new information on

I love Darren Brown, but that particular con doesn't really exemplify confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a selective willingness believe new information only when it conforms to your previous beliefs. The system is a good example of how a limited perspective can introduce those false beliefs in the first place - namely, when every horse you bet on wins, you start to think there's a system. But a the key part of confirmation bias isn't acceptance of information which fits your beliefs, it's the rejection of information that doesn't. For a good example of confirmation bias by Darren Brown, in his videos on psychic readings [1], he throws a multitude of information out, and people latch on to information which confirms his psychic abilities, and ignore the rest, making his abilities completely unfalsifiable. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3L9lB1Qtg&t=2m18s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_3L9lB1Qtg&t=2m18s