Our attention to video games in the cases of some shootings but not others is what psychologists call confirmation bias, and it creates the illusion of a correlation where there is none.

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The conference call was polite, but my take from the tone and data from the conference call is a confirmation that Windows 8 is a dud.

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There would also be a Category C, where a committee could decide to call in the candidate for confirmation.

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During Justice Roberts's confirmation hearings back in 2005, he described judges as umpires whose job it is to call balls and strikes as he sees them.

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