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NAVIGATING THROUGH CONFIRMATION BIAS

MOST TRAMPERS will have mistakenly identified their location by misinterpreting the geographic features on the ground.

This is known as and it can delay the realisation that they are off course, thereby increasing the danger they are in. The longer someone

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