Blog #12

 Confirmation bias is only seeing new information that confirms your previous beliefs.  This is something that we sadly see all the time in todays world.  People will constantly just refuse to believe that their side is wrong and will only listen to people that will fuel their beliefs.  This is something that we don't just see in politics.  I personally am a massive sports fan, and as we know sports fans can get very attached and emotional to there favorite team and players to the point where they are convinced that they are good even though that's just not the case.  ESPN analyst and former host of the show First Take Skip Bayless is a great example of that.  He has a strong dislike towards NBA star Lebron James and still thinks that Micheal Jordan who his over fifty years old could beat Lebron James in a game of basketball to this day.  He also shoots down Lebron's accomplishments all the time and refuses to think Lebron is one of the best basketball players ever no matter what he does.  You do, as I mentioned earlier, see this in politics a lot as well.  There are youtube videos out there where people are reading a quote from Bernie Sanders and saying that Trump said it and the people are agreeing with it but once they figured out that Trump is the one that said the quote they don't know what to do with themselves.   People will just believe anything they here if they think it came from someone that they support.