Kahal's tendency to search only for information and evidence that support his perspective illustrates the "<span>Confirmation bias". </span>
<span>Confirmation bias otherwise known as confirmatory bias or
myside bias, is the propensity to scan for, translate, support, and review data
in a way that affirms one's previous convictions or hypotheses. It is a sort of
intellectual predisposition and a deliberate mistake of inductive thinking.
Individuals show this inclination when they accumulate or recall data
specifically, or when they decipher it biasedly.</span>
