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An investor with a background of working and investing in the tech industry interprets any pitch from a tech startup as being more promising than others, even if the information is confusing and unclear. What type of bias does this scenario describe?
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Confirmation bias.
The investor’s existing belief that tech startups are promising leads them to interpret ambiguous or unclear pitches as supportive of that belief. (Not sampling bias, which is about nonrepresentative data; observer bias is about expectations skewing measurement/recording; "interpretation" is a more general description but confirmation bias is the specific cognitive bias here.)
The investor’s existing belief that tech startups are promising leads them to interpret ambiguous or unclear pitches as supportive of that belief. (Not sampling bias, which is about nonrepresentative data; observer bias is about expectations skewing measurement/recording; "interpretation" is a more general description but confirmation bias is the specific cognitive bias here.)
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