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The psychology of confirmation, or something, I don't know what to call it

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There is probably a name for this phenomenon. I will illustrate it below.

"Is there a way to configure the system to do X?"

Go to the Y dialog and select Z.

"It doesn't work."

I just tried it. It works for me. I'm using 〈configuration details〉.

"Thanks. It's working."


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