Why you keep finding evidence that you're right

Search for a belief the wrong way and the internet, or your own memory, will happily reward whatever question you asked it: type a search that assumes you are right, and you will get results confirming you are right, not because reality agrees but because the question itself was one-sided. Confirmation bias works the same way internally, quietly turning what should be evidence gathering into a defense brief for a conclusion you had already reached before you started looking. It is not a sign of dishonesty, it is what attention does by default when it already has a preferred answer. One better question interrupts the pattern: what would have to be true for me to be wrong about this? If you cannot name anything, or you notice you have never actually looked, that is the signal the search was rigged from the start.