Chapter 10 Section five

"Didn't we take a class on Confirmation Bias when we were freshmen?" Yoichiro said.Shuicheng let out a big breath and nodded. "Yes, Teacher Tian Di taught it." "Have you tried to apply the content of that class to yourself?" "I know what you're trying to say. You're trying to tell me that my thinking patterns are off, right?" "Yes, that's exactly what I mean." The so-called bias (Bias), is the error and bias.People with deviated thinking patterns cannot make correct judgments about things.For example, if a child is asked to draw a coin without seeing it, a child from a wealthy family will draw the coin smaller than the actual size, while a child from a poor family will draw the coin larger than the actual size, which is also a bias.Every child feels differently about money, and these biases can affect the correctness of judgment.

The so-called confirmation bias (Confirmation Bias) is a deviation in a confident state.People with this condition will pick out information that matches what they believe.Conversely, they try to avoid evidence that contradicts what they believe.The result, of course, is a misjudgment of the facts.For example, people with the prejudice that "women are poor drivers" only pay attention to female drivers who drive poorly, but turn a blind eye to female drivers who drive well.Divination in magazines will make people feel very accurate, and the same is true.If the divination column says "you will meet someone unexpectedly" or "you will make a small mistake", then the person who believes in divination will pick out the matching part from his life and therefore think that divination is "very accurate ".They think, "I did meet someone by chance, and I was careless about something." But the truth is, as long as anyone lives a normal life, they will meet people more or less unexpectedly and make some small mistakes.Even such a simple truth, they can't detect it.

"Shuicheng... Yaji is very similar to you, especially the smile, the arc of the jaw is almost exactly the same." "I do not think so." Shuicheng shook his head. "That's why I said that you are biased, even with Hui's work. Because of the strange prejudice in your head, it is absurd to think that Hui's good performance is traded for her body. Her insurance Performance is created by her own personality traits and continuous efforts, she did not do anything sorry for you, she is definitely not that kind of person, she is innocent." "So how do you explain the toilet paper in the trash can?"

Being asked such a question, Yoichiro was immediately at a loss for words. "Well..., as Hui said, you made a mistake." "Absolutely not mistaken, I can see it clearly, it is definitely semen. Aki is not my child, definitely not my child." That being the case, why not just do a DNA test….Yoichiro originally wanted to say that, but after thinking about it, he decided to forget it.Yoichiro has seen many similar cases. Even if the DNA results prove that Aki is a child of Shuicheng, Shuicheng will not believe it. He will definitely use the wrong identification method or incorrect sampling to escape reality.Confirmation bias is such a terrible phenomenon. If he wants to overcome this obstacle, he can only rely on his own strength to change from the most basic ideas.

"You can't believe that Kei slept with a man other than me, right?" "of course." "Now you have learned a lesson. Even a psychiatrist cannot understand what the closest person is thinking. You and I are the same." "I think it's just you." "I am Mao..." Shuicheng narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a calm tone that was completely different from before: "If I tell you that Hui was killed by me, what are you going to do?" Yoichiro felt as if a layer of ice had formed on his back, forced a smile and said: "Do not make jokes."

"No, it's true, Hui was killed by me." Mizushiro's face was expressionless, which made Yoichiro feel a kind of pure fear. "Shuicheng, you..." At this time, Mizushiro suddenly got up from the round stool and walked towards Yoichiro, who couldn't help feeling stiff all over.Shuicheng opened the desk drawer, took out a piece of paper that was folded very small, and handed it to Yoichiro. "This is Hui's suicide note." Yoichiro looked up at Mizuki.It turned out that he was lying when he said that there was no suicide note. When I opened it, it was a blank sheet of A4 size.Yoichiro turned the white paper to the correct direction and confirmed its contents. There was only one line of short text printed by a printer on the paper.

Che, I'm tired.I will never forgive you. "I found this under the whiskey bottle in the cupboard this morning. It must have been put in by Hui before going out yesterday morning. In order not to let Aki see..., it is indeed a good place to hide the suicide note written only for me , as long as you put the suicide note there, absolutely only I will find out, and I will find out in a very short time." Shuicheng smiled with his mouth slightly open.The shadow behind the teeth looked like a dark bottomless pit. "I killed Hui." Maybe so to speak.Although the text on the paper is short, it can be clearly felt that Kei chose to die because she was tired of married life.

In this way, Yoichiro finally understood why Shuicheng said with certainty just now that Kei was determined to seek death before going out.Because he found this suicide note. "Aren't you going to give this letter to the police?" "I'm not going to hand it over to the police, I'm going to get rid of this suicide note right away." Shuicheng lowered his voice and asked, "Do you think my actions are despicable?" Yoichiro was at a loss, not knowing how to answer.After a while, he shook his head and said, "This is your husband and wife's problem, and I have no objection."

In fact, even handing over the suicide note to the police won't help. "No matter what we do now, there is no way to bring Hui back to life. Now we can only pray in our hearts that she can rest in peace. And...you have to take good care of Yaji, you can only depend on each other." "Depending on each other..." Shuicheng looked at the floor with melancholy eyes, refolded the paper and put it back in the drawer.There was an indifferent smile on the corner of his mouth. Yoichiro asked him: "Watertown...do you know what the opposite of 'love' is?"

Shuicheng raised his head, hesitated for a few seconds and replied: "Hate?" Yoichiro shook his head and told his old friend the correct answer, "No, it's indifference." He didn't know how Shuicheng would interpret this sentence. "Excuse me! If there is anything I can help with, please feel free to ask." After a while, Yoichiro stood up. "Also, Shuicheng, just treat me as meddling in my own business, but I hope you don't take too much medicine, take it when you have to." "I understand..., I'm sorry, Mao, to trouble you."

"It's just helping each other out." Just as he was about to reach out and turn the doorknob, Yoichiro stopped, turned his head and said to Mizushiro: "Actually, I am also..., since Sakie left, I have started to eat silver." Yoichiro decided to speak out and no longer hide it from Shuicheng.During the days of continuous insomnia, Tian Di had to ask Tian Di to prescribe sleeping pills for him. "Does this mean that doctors don't keep in good health? I'm not qualified to preach to you at all." Shuicheng raised his head and glanced at Yoichiro. "I'm Mao, you..." "how?" Shuicheng licked his chapped lips with his tongue, "It's okay." He shook his head and said, "It's nothing, be careful on the way back." Yoichiro walked out of the room, and Aki, who was sitting on the sofa in the living room, was gone.When he went to the door to put on his shoes, he found that Aki's shoes were also missing.Although the impression was vague, when I entered the door just now, there should have been a pink sneaker by the door.While opening the door, Yoichiro turned his head and said to Mizushiro, "Aki seems to have gone out..." Before he could finish speaking, he heard a harsh friction sound, which was the sound of the car's brakes.Yoichiro and Mizushiro glanced at each other for an instant, then rushed out of the gate one after the other.Since the elevator stopped on the first floor, the two had no choice but to run down the emergency escape ladder and ran out of the lobby on the first floor in a panic.At this time, the two saw a group of people gathered beside the national road in front of the apartment, and Aki fell in the middle of the crowd. "Ambulance!" someone yelled. "Call an ambulance!" The other squatted down beside Aki, shaking her shoulders.Yaji's head shook accordingly, but his small body didn't respond at all. "Don't touch her!" Yoichiro ran towards Aki while shouting.