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Originally Posted by Beardyman
It could even be a question of "If you look hard enough you will find what you are expecting whether it is there or not". Psychological? Maybe.
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Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance. Quote from Wiki:
"Festinger argued that some people would inevitably resolve dissonance by blindly believing whatever they wanted to believe."
Festinger was one of the proponents of dissonance theory.
Alan