Re: OT The Politcal Brain - Confirmation bias

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:13:54 GMT, BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Cliff wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:30:54 GMT, BottleBob <bottlbob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To All:

There is an article in the July issue of Scientific American called the
"Political Brain" where partisanship is shown to be related to
unconscious confirmation bias.

Found these "WMDs" yet?
This is testable, BB.

Cliff:

Excuse me? From your comments it seems you didn't understand what the
article was even about. It made NO comments about the validity, or
invalidity, of any specific political position or comments.

I clearly did though.
Did you miss the bit:
[
Found these "WMDs" yet?
This is testable, BB.
] ?

It was
illustrating a mental process, conscious or unconscious, called
"Confirmation Bias" that seems to afflict those that are of a political
extremist bent.

Did you try telling a few wingers & fundies?

Your mentioning "WMD" as a response in this context is probably just a
strawman argument meant to deflect attention away from the conclusions
of the article.

"Probably"?

Did their conclusions threaten you in some way?

Looked like a prime counterexample to me.
--
Cliff
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