Sentence examples similar to pre existing view from inspiring English sources

But once there was this idea that what people actually want is news that reaffirms their pre-existing view of the world – the idea that it was a meaningful source of information evaporated.

In this culture, he said, the victim has the status: "To such readers [of A Little Life], the ugliness of this author's subject must bring a kind of pleasure, confirming their pre-existing view of the world as a site of victimisation and little else".

Confirmation bias can become much harder to avoid when individuals are under pressure from bosses and colleagues to come up with data that supports a pre-existing view of the world, say MacGarvie and McElheran.

Participants described studies supporting their pre-existing view as superior to those that contradicted it, in detailed and specific ways.

They may also have had a pre-existing view of the quality of the trust based on reputation and hearsay.

The interrupted time series analyses confirm the pre-existing view—shared by all our informants that GMIS did significantly help with the overall country strategy to improve health system performance and boost facility deliveries, and consequently, deliveries attended by trained health personnel.

Many linkages were pre-existing.

But there is a difference between the pre-conscious search for confirmation of existing views – we all engage in that to some extent – and the deliberate attempt to dress this search up as a quest for truth, as denialists do.

Both groups were most eager to receive intelligent arguments that strongly corroborated their pre-existing views.

They will only accept the evidence that fits their pre-existing views.

They have relied on evidence that isn't really evidence, often to support conclusions that fit their pre-existing views.