Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I’ve already said: I implicitly trust my brother’s description of the practical consequences of the rules and procedures applicable to the operations of which he is aware. Other posters? Not so much.
In accident reports this type of thinking is referred to as confirmation bias .
Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory
bias or myside
bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.