Confirmation bias – the tendency to discredit non-confirmative evidence, or to seek out (actively or subconsciously) primarily confirming evidence – is part of all of us. We all suffer from it, every day. As technologist, we could do better. We should always re-evaluate all the facts and not fall into the traps of our dogma/orthodoxy – what we see or want to see. Rather than reviewing all the facts, we too often hold onto our beliefs. Ask a front-end developer which library/framework should be used for a given project, it’s rarely followed by a question on what the requirements are.…