The concept of confirmation and non-confirmation plays an important role in my analysis as well, as it can provide valuable insights when comparing a market to an indicator like the (OBV) or relative performance ( RS analysis).

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The length of the divergence, or non-confirmation, also provides important information about the magnitude of the rally or decline.

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This will be widely seen as a non-denial confirmation, since News Corp has in the past shot down other reports of its plans to quarantine the hacking debacle.

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Fraud, plagiarism, cherry-picked results, poor or non-existent controls, confirmation bias, opaque, missing, or unavailable data, and stonewalling when questioned have gone from being rare to being everyday occurrences.

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That non-discrimination issue, like the benefits issue, has sort of forgone unaddressed during the confirmation process.

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