Confirmation bias

Quality:

Confirmation bias - tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses. Article “Confirmation bias” in English Wikipedia has 98 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 243 references and 38 sections.

This article has the best quality in Turkish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Confirmation bias” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Confirmation bias”, its content was written by 568 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 967 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4147 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #730 in July 2010
• Global: #4367 in August 2022

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3016 in July 2010
• Global: #7043 in July 2010

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Turkish (tr) Doğrulama yanlılığı		100
2	English (en) Confirmation bias		97.9652
3	Thai (th) ความเอนเอียงเพื่อยืนยัน		96
4	Polish (pl) Efekt potwierdzenia		94.4801
5	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên kiến xác nhận		92.7273
6	Korean (ko) 확증 편향		90.7692
7	Russian (ru) Склонность к подтверждению своей точки зрения		90.725
8	Spanish (es) Sesgo de confirmación		90.2396
9	Ukrainian (uk) Підтверджувальне упередження		87.7778
10	Indonesian (id) Bias konfirmasi		85.4349

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Confirmation bias		10 152 068
2	Japanese (ja) 確証バイアス		835 289
3	Spanish (es) Sesgo de confirmación		832 277
4	Russian (ru) Склонность к подтверждению своей точки зрения		827 460
5	German (de) Bestätigungsfehler		745 948
6	French (fr) Biais de confirmation		635 418
7	Polish (pl) Efekt potwierdzenia		422 805
8	Chinese (zh) 確認偏誤		349 156
9	Italian (it) Bias di conferma		338 384
10	Korean (ko) 확증 편향		299 492

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Confirmation bias		16 310
2	Russian (ru) Склонность к подтверждению своей точки зрения		8 019
3	German (de) Bestätigungsfehler		3 412
4	French (fr) Biais de confirmation		2 833
5	Japanese (ja) 確証バイアス		2 665
6	Spanish (es) Sesgo de confirmación		2 197
7	Korean (ko) 확증 편향		2 064
8	Polish (pl) Efekt potwierdzenia		1 759
9	Chinese (zh) 確認偏誤		1 695
10	Italian (it) Bias di conferma		1 306

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Confirmation bias		568
2	French (fr) Biais de confirmation		106
3	German (de) Bestätigungsfehler		74
4	Italian (it) Bias di conferma		58
5	Hebrew (he) הטיית האישוש		51
6	Spanish (es) Sesgo de confirmación		48
7	Russian (ru) Склонность к подтверждению своей точки зрения		48
8	Polish (pl) Efekt potwierdzenia		47
9	Japanese (ja) 確証バイアス		36
10	Vietnamese (vi) Thiên kiến xác nhận		33

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Confirmation bias		5
2	Arabic (ar) انحياز تأكيدي		1
3	German (de) Bestätigungsfehler		1
4	Hebrew (he) הטיית האישוש		1
5	Indonesian (id) Bias konfirmasi		1
6	Korean (ko) 확증 편향		1
7	Polish (pl) Efekt potwierdzenia		1
8	Bulgarian (bg) Склонност за потвърждаване		0
9	Catalan (ca) Biaix de confirmació		0
10	Czech (cs) Konfirmační zkreslení		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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