But we have to beware of confirmational bias here.
Example:
A teacher hears a child in her class sneeze. The next day, 5 kids in
the class are sick. To the teacher, that's confirmation that viruses exist and are contageous.
But that confirmation is biased because the teacher has ignored the hundred other times that a child sneezed and **no** kids got sick. Because it was a non-event, while 5 children out sick at once was something that stuck in the teacher's head.
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