It seems from the work on confirmation bias that
(a) people often find it easier to deal with negative evidence than positive
evidence
(b) people often find it easier to deal with positive evidence than negative
evidence
(c) positive evidence and negative evidence are about equally easy to deal
with
(d) the heuristic underlying the various sources of confirmation bias is
representativeness
(e) the heuristic underlying the various sources of confirmation bias is
availability
B
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