Random Thoughts or Whatever
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DesertRatt
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Don't fret. It's just mythology.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
...informing worldviews and politics since 500BC...
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audionerd
In Ever Learn."Every where"?
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DeadRock
Ideas Guy
I've always filed that along side ignorance is bliss...if only for cataloging purposes...
DesertRatt
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It's a very difficult process to become meaningfully "ignorant." It is a path to bliss, but few want to endure it.
Modern life doesn't want or permit people to become ignorant. It often feels like "news" travels mysteriously with the ether - it's pretty hard to avoid.
REF:
IGNORANT: unaware, uninformed
Modern life doesn't want or permit people to become ignorant. It often feels like "news" travels mysteriously with the ether - it's pretty hard to avoid.
REF:
IGNORANT: unaware, uninformed
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audionerd
As often as not, probably more often, "news" dissemination spreads ignorance.
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DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Understood. Is it ignorance though, or FALSITIES?
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
AKA confirmation bias...
nailer
audionerd
Per Wiki: "Confirmation bias, a phrase coined by English psychologist Peter Wason, is the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed.
Confirmation biases are effects in information processing. They differ from what is sometimes called the behavioral confirmation effect, commonly known as self-fulfilling prophecy, in which a person's expectations influence their own behavior, bringing about the expected result.
Some psychologists restrict the term "confirmation bias" to selective collection of evidence that supports what one already believes while ignoring or rejecting evidence that supports a different conclusion. Others apply the term more broadly to the tendency to preserve one's existing beliefs when searching for evidence, interpreting it, or recalling it from memory. Confirmation bias is a result of automatic, unintentional strategies rather than deliberate deception."
Based on the above it appears we all possess confirmation bias.
Confirmation biases are effects in information processing. They differ from what is sometimes called the behavioral confirmation effect, commonly known as self-fulfilling prophecy, in which a person's expectations influence their own behavior, bringing about the expected result.
Some psychologists restrict the term "confirmation bias" to selective collection of evidence that supports what one already believes while ignoring or rejecting evidence that supports a different conclusion. Others apply the term more broadly to the tendency to preserve one's existing beliefs when searching for evidence, interpreting it, or recalling it from memory. Confirmation bias is a result of automatic, unintentional strategies rather than deliberate deception."
Based on the above it appears we all possess confirmation bias.
True, but some people are worse than others.
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audionerd
Subjective bias determines who's worse.
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Is it wrong to take your morning walk wearing your PJ's?
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Whew! I didn't want to be a total weirdo out there!
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Random thought while walking.
"Preparedness" is something people talk about, not something they do.
"Preparedness" is something people talk about, not something they do.
DesertRatt
All Bark, No Bite!
Believe me, I am already considered a Full-Fledged weirdo. I didn't want someone calling in the gendarmes.
