Statistics and experimental design · MLD-0197
Confirmation bias
A tendency to favor evidence supporting an existing belief or prediction.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Keep only synthetic examples that agree with a model.
Original caveat
In ML it can describe feedback loops, not only human psychology.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Theory · Evaluation · Research.
Tags: ML · DL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: None recorded.
Related concepts
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Original references
- scikit-learn: cross-validation ↗ · Reference link
- Mathematics for Machine Learning ↗ · Reference link
- scikit-learn: evaluation metrics ↗ · Reference link
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