Sentence examples similar to picking confirmation from inspiring English sources

(Psychologists call this kind of cognitive cherry-picking "confirmation bias": confirming what you expect to find by selectively accepting or ignoring information).

We have been digging too and have picked up confirmation from a source that both sides have privately confirmed that the deal is happening, and that the pricing reported first by the Calcalist is accurate.

A slew of Trump picks faced confirmation hearings earlier this week, including Ryan Zinke to head the Department of the Interior; Betsy DeVos for secretary of education; Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency; Tom Price for secretary of health and human services; Wilbur Ross to lead the Commerce Department; and Nikki Haley for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

His study has provided important information about longevity, including confirmation that picking the right parents is crucial for living a long life.

When it's time to narrow down options and choose a course of action, seekers often fall prey to confirmation bias, picking the "easy way out," or other forms of flawed reasoning.

Compounds with ≥25% inhibition in the screen (100, 0.16% hit rate) were cherry picked and confirmed by retesting, with a 73% confirmation rate (Supplementary Table S1).

One to 3 presumptive E. coli colonies on CHROMagar™ ECC were picked for further confirmation.

Next day, colonies from each constructs were picked for PCR confirmation of each construct using GoTaq DNA polymerase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) and vector specific primers, and also for inoculation in the LB medium (with ampicillin) for overnight culture of each clone for mini-prep.

So far, the Senate has confirmed 14 out of 22 Trump cabinet or cabinet-level picks requiring confirmation.

Mired in delays, just two of Trump's picks won confirmation.

GOP leaders have only let six of President Barack Obama's judicial picks get confirmation votes this year.