Improving confidence in/on?

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Can you say:- Improving John's confidence on the results?Or should it be IN? Or is both allowed?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

It should be confidence in the results.
on is not allowed. No.

CJ

Denim · Answer

This means that the 400+ results in Google are wrong?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22confidence+on+the+results%22

Are you sure it is wrong?

CalifJim · Answer

In a Google search, 400 hits is exceedingly small. It means that the phrase you're searching is hardly used at all. You should get numbers in the hundred thousands or even millions for common expressions.

Besides, some of the hits have phrases like
rely with the utmost confidence on the results

Here, the expression is rely on. You are relying on the results, and you are doing it in a certain way, namely, with utmost confidence. There's nothing there about confidence in the results or confindence on the results. The word confidence is not connected logically with the word results.

Another is
They don't base their self confidence on the results during the game.

Here the expression is self-confidence, and the self-confidence is not in or on the results. Instead, you have the expression base on. We're talking about basing something on the results.

I agree that a few of the hits do seem to connect confidence with results in the phrase confidence on the results, but this stikes me as rather strange.

CJ

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