Confirmation bias
Risk & psychologySeeking and favouring information that supports an existing belief.
In plain terms
Stock-tip groups are confirmation machines — everyone in them already owns it.
Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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Seeking and favouring information that supports an existing belief.
Stock-tip groups are confirmation machines — everyone in them already owns it.