confirmation bias – Phil Mayes

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 16, 2019 Posted in Politics No Comments Tagged with confirmation bias, Fear

I offer this Reddit discussion about the FOX News article Honduran man charged with raping, killing jogger in New Jersey had been deported twice as an example of how hard it is to discuss politics. I am posting as PhilAndMaude. Person-A: A-fucking-nother …

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Our beliefs resist new facts

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 23, 2015 Posted in Politics, Science, Society No Comments Tagged with Beliefs, confirmation bias

Mother Jones has a really interesting article on how our beliefs block new information: Pre-existing beliefs, far more than new facts, skew our thoughts. Feelings arise before conscious thoughts and color them. Confirmation bias gives more weight to facts that …

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

Our beliefs resist new facts