You Can't Handle the Truth: How Confirmation Bias Distorts Your Opinion.

[grasshopperglock]

http://www.jakeshealthsolutions.com...confirmation-bias-distorts-your-opinions-4143

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.– Leo Tolstoy​

Your thoughts, opinions, beliefs, and worldviews are based on years and years of experience, reading, and rational, objective analysis.
Right?
Wrong.

 

[V-Tach]

When it comes to the Second Amendment and Firearms, I am definitely biased...

No amount of psychobabble is going to change that........ever...

jmho...

 

[majormadmax]

The truth is subjective.

 

[Vaquero]

Some people walk across hot coals barefoot.
I don't.

Am I wrong?
Are they wrong?

 

[diesel1959]

I like dead animal flesh done to a turn on a grill. This is TRVTH and it's not subjective.

 

[TheDan]

One thing I find interesting is that our confirmation bias is fed and marketed to. Modern content delivery systems attempt to assess things you like and put them in front of you. Those suggested "news" articles are designed to feed your confirmation bias so that you'll click on them. Even you search results are changed based on what the machine predicts you like. It's a small wonder we ever find new information.

The truth is subjective.

I think a more accurate statement would be definitions are subjective

 

[Wyldman]

Like the definition of "is"?

Crush, kill, mangle, maim, destroy.

 

[PhulesAu]

I know bullshit when I hear or see it, no bias needed.

 

[Renegade]

When it comes to the Second Amendment and Firearms, I am definitely biased...

No amount of psychobabble is going to change that........ever...

jmho...

Exactly. 5 school shootings a day will not change my belief that free men should not denied arms.

 

[Army 1911]

Personally, I never let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

 

[stdreb27]

Personally, I never let the facts get in the way of my opinions.

Amen to that!


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