{"id":43443,"date":"2014-12-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/12\/09\/the-psychology-of-confirmation-or-something-i-dont-know-what-to-call-it\/"},"modified":"2014-12-09T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T07:00:00","slug":"the-psychology-of-confirmation-or-something-i-dont-know-what-to-call-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20141209-00\/?p=43443\/","title":{"rendered":"The psychology of confirmation, or something, I don't know what to call it"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is probably a name for this phenomenon. I will illustrate it below.\n “Is there a way to configure the system to do X?”\n — Go to the Y dialog and select Z.<\/i>\n “It doesn’t work.”\n — I just tried it. It works for me. I’m using ⟨configuration details⟩.<\/i><\/p>\n

“Thanks. It’s working.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-43443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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.”<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}