{
  "handle": "ContextConfirmationBias",
  "ref": "ContextConfirmationBias#d887",
  "stub": "d887",
  "semaId": "sema:ContextConfirmationBias#mh:SHA-256:d88729124ca39f6521709e67ee059ce0ed8210127f0ee0ef107ddd831928ae4c",
  "layer": "Mind",
  "category": "Reasoning",
  "gloss": "What sits in the context or in the researcher's mind is what the instrument then finds",
  "mechanism": "{{tuning}} in a human researcher has a counterpart in models: a belief present in the context leads the model to support it, the same mechanism as {{pink_elephant}}. The cause is context, not malice. Defenses are to report every setting and to keep contested beliefs out of the context when neutral evidence is wanted.",
  "invariants": [
    "Belief in context biases what is retrieved and reported",
    "No intent to mislead is required"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "Reading confirming evidence as independent",
    "Unreported context that shapes results"
  ],
  "ring": 2,
  "tier": 3,
  "aliases": {
    "tuning": "MotivatedInstrumentTuning",
    "pink_elephant": "PinkElephantContext"
  },
  "buildsOn": [
    {
      "handle": "MotivatedInstrumentTuning",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "tuning",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/MotivatedInstrumentTuning/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/MotivatedInstrumentTuning.json"
    },
    {
      "handle": "PinkElephantContext",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "pink_elephant",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/PinkElephantContext/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/PinkElephantContext.json"
    }
  ],
  "usedBy": [
    {
      "handle": "CrackpotProbe",
      "type": "references",
      "alias": "context_confirmation_bias",
      "url": "/knowledge-graph/CrackpotProbe/",
      "json": "/knowledge-graph/CrackpotProbe.json"
    }
  ],
  "sources": {
    "research": [],
    "works": [],
    "homePage": false
  },
  "url": "/knowledge-graph/ContextConfirmationBias/",
  "graphUrl": "/knowledge-graph#ContextConfirmationBias",
  "directory": "/knowledge-graph/patterns.json"
}