"First is selective search. When we want something to be true, we go looking for the evidence that says it is. We type the question into the search bar that we already know the answer to. We read the outlet that will agree with us. The second is biased assimilation. This one is subtler and more dangerous. When evidence does arrive, we don't weigh it evenly. Evidence that agrees with us feels strong, obvious, and well-reasoned. But disagreeable evidence feels flimsy, suspect, and deserving of a closer look. Same quality of evidence, but with different evidentiary weight scales. The third is disconfirmation resistance. When something genuinely threatens a belief we hold, we don't just ignore it. We get to work. We generate counterarguments. We find the flaw. We spend real mental effort dismantling the thing that made us uncomfortable. That we would never spend on the evidence we liked. In other words, search for confirming evidence."