...Brendan McSweeney Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and critique ways in which the threats from confirmation bias have been rejected. Design/methodology/approach Dismissals of the existence of, or threats from, confirmation bias are identified from a review of literature across...

...Brendan McSweeney Purpose To describe the implicit epistemic flaw of “confirmation bias” and to illustrate and evaluate the threats to qualitative research trustworthiness from that bias. Design/methodology/approach The article overviews evidence and analysis from a wide range of disciplines...