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What We Learned from the Spurs win over the Kings

Confirmation bias is the “tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that affirms one’s prior beliefs or hypotheses.” It’s a common reasoning error that no human is immune from. Not even a legend like Gregg Popovich.

Writing a “What We Learned” piece requires an answer to the question: What do we make of this game, these new pieces of evidence? The way I interpret the evidence is different from how you interpret it. You and I might look at different pieces of evidence - eye test vs. statistics, for example.