Michael Stevens admits that his project to identify 2012 as a pivotal year was an exercise in confirmation bias where he specifically sought out data to fit his predetermined conclusion.

“In fact, this entire this entire project was an exercise in biased researching and uh confirmation bias. You're like, okay, how can I somehow prove that 2012 was a special year?”

Confirmation bias significantly influenced the investigation and trial of Robert Roberson, leading participants to ignore alternative medical explanations for the child's death.

“And confirmation bias is the tendency for people to make up their mind to something and they close off openness to alternative explanations. They seek and find and hear and process only data that supports their initial belief. And they turn a deaf ear a deaf eye a deaf ear and a blind eye to anythin”

He argues that confirmation bias and groupthink are the two primary defining features of government.

“the psychological tendency that and group think I think are the two biggest defining features of any government”