Persistence of Belief (Confirmation Bias)

[xssve]

Confirmation Bias:

In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs. It is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference, or as a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study or disconfirmation of an alternative hypothesis.

Wikipedia: Confirmation Bias.

11% of the country apparently still thinks Obama is a Muslim, unchanged since the campaign.

As was the case last fall, white evangelical Protestants (19%) and Republicans (17%) are among the most likely to view Obama as a Muslim. Fewer than half in each group -- 38% of white evangelicals and 46% of Republicans -- correctly identify Obama as a Christian.

Pew Research Center: No Decline in Belief That Obama is a Muslim

I mean his name is Obama, isn't it? It's self evident!

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Perhaps a change of spelling might help? Try O'Bama. He has been proven to have Irish ancestors, after all.

 

[sr71plt]

Perhaps a change of spelling might help? Try O'Bama. He has been proven to have Irish ancestors, after all.

O'Bama? It sounds like a southern college football fight song. Sounds good, then. That should keep them confused.

 

[amicus]

"...Confirmation Bias:
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In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs. It is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference, or as a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study or disconfirmation of an alternative hypothesis.

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Naaw..you don't get away with this, at least not while I am lurking.

Cognitive bias, to confirm those aspects of reality subject to the human senses, acts to reinforce ones' grasp of nature and natural laws.

Continuously seeing water flow down hill, confirms mans' understanding of gravity long before the phenomenon was given a name.

Fuzzy minds with weak or no basic axioms, like yours, do fall back upon confirmational bias as a means to reinforce their 'beliefs', as nature and reality do not permit such biases to be confirmed.

Ur a tricky, slipperly little fella, ain'tcha? About 5'6", compensating?

Amicus

 

[Dragonlipz]

My mixed race daughter is half Italian (by heritage) but no one has ever said 'Buonjourno!' to her .....

 

[xssve]

"Ur a tricky, slipperly little fella, ain'tcha? About 5'6", compensating?" Ur? It think that's a city in Mesopotamia. 6'4" moron.


"Perhaps a change of spelling might help? Try O'Bama. He has been proven to have Irish ancestors, after all." Roughly the same percentage of evangelicals who believe Jesus will return in their lifetime, coincidence?

O'Bama got rich on an aqueduct job
And he made a considerable pile.
His neighbors with envy regarded the scene
To see him assuming such style.
O'Bama himself was as bad as the rest
With diamonds he dazzled the day,
But affairs reached their height when there came an invite
To O'Bama's first five o'clock "tay".
Cho:
Sure is it one lump or two lumps?
Permit me to pass you the cream.
Sure, Missus McCarthy, the dress you have on is a dream!
The whole entertainment was governed by etiquet-"tay"
And a high-toned social event was
O'Bama's first five o'clock "tay".

 

[amicus]

Maybe you should keep your day job as a waiter; your song writing lyrical skills ain't gonna make ur beans. heh,))

ami

 

[voluptuary_manque]

"Ur a tricky, slipperly little fella, ain'tcha? About 5'6", compensating?" Ur? It think that's a city in Mesopotamia. 6'4" moron.


"Perhaps a change of spelling might help? Try O'Bama. He has been proven to have Irish ancestors, after all." Roughly the same percentage of evangelicals who believe Jesus will return in their lifetime, coincidence?

O'Bama got rich on an aqueduct job
And he made a considerable pile.
His neighbors with envy regarded the scene
To see him assuming such style.
O'Bama himself was as bad as the rest
With diamonds he dazzled the day,
But affairs reached their height when there came an invite
To O'Bama's first five o'clock "tay".
Cho:
Sure is it one lump or two lumps?
Permit me to pass you the cream.
Sure, Missus McCarthy, the dress you have on is a dream!
The whole entertainment was governed by etiquet-"tay"
And a high-toned social event was
O'Bama's first five o'clock "tay".

I like it!

 

[wmrs2]

Confirmation Bias: Wikipedia: Confirmation Bias.
In psychology and cognitive science, confirmation bias is a tendency to search for or interpret new information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions and to avoid information and interpretations which contradict prior beliefs. It is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference, or as a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study or disconfirmation of an alternative hypothesis.
11% of the country apparently still thinks Obama is a Muslim, unchanged since the campaign.
Pew Research Center: No Decline in Belief That Obama is a Muslim

I mean his name is Obama, isn't it? It's self evident!

Have you ever heard of a Feuding Slip? You do confess a truth here.

It is a type of cognitive bias and represents an error of inductive inference, or as a form of selection bias toward confirmation of the hypothesis under study or disconfirmation of an alternative hypothesis.

You are the one that takes issue with the fact logic and straight thinking requires a return or induction back to a universal, stable, unchanging premise. In fact your interpretation of moral relativity forbids a deduction and induction process. You are only honest and unbias when you are not aware of it; it is a slip when it happens and requires you to make a tremendous more false assumptions to reprove your point.

The greatest "slip" of all time is the assumption that a universal truth that the scientific method (an universal truth) is required to discover real truth. like the law of gravity but is denied to be functional in moral and ethical situation. Your real and unbiased belief is that there is stable premises in both science and morality. Amicus did a good job in pointing this fact out to you. Listen to him. that is the true path to straightening out your strange logic.

 

[Dragonlipz]

Have you ever heard of a Feuding Slip? You do confess a truth here.


You are the one that takes issue with the fact logic and straight thinking requires a return or induction back to a universal, stable, unchanging premise. In fact your interpretation of moral relativity forbids a deduction and induction process. You are only honest and unbias when you are not aware of it; it is a slip when it happens and requires you to make a tremendous more false assumptions to reprove your point.

The greatest "slip" of all time is the assumption that a universal truth that the scientific method (an universal truth) is required to discover real truth. like the law of gravity but is denied to be functional in moral and ethical situation. Your real and unbiased belief is that there is stable premises in both science and morality. Amicus did a good job in pointing this fact out to you. Listen to him. that is the true path to straightening out your strange logic.

Amicus, what shade of lipstick do you prefer when wmrs2 puckers up?
(might I suggest a sepia to match the nose so enthusiastically lodged?)

 

[xssve]

A match made in heaven.

 

[Guest]

What is a Feuding slip?

Is that some kinda Hatfield & McCoy hick lingerie?

 

[amicus]

A little object lesson concerning absolutes and universality in human emotions.

Three threads, all unknown to each other, posted concerning the same thing, the emotional content of a singer, Susan Boyle, try any of the three you wish.

I would even project, although I cannot document this, that 'language' is not a barrier to the emotional content of this particular singer, by that, I suggest that every human on earth would respond in the same manner.

toodles...

Amicus

 

[xssve]

What is a Feuding slip?

Is that some kinda Hatfield & McCoy hick lingerie?

Something like this, I think:

http://www.povonline.com/images3/julienewmar.jpg

 

[wmrs2]

Amicus, what shade of lipstick do you prefer when wmrs2 puckers up?
(might I suggest a sepia to match the nose so enthusiastically lodged?)

I don't know about Amicus, but for you, you need brown to hide the shade where you kissed everybody's ass.

 

[DesertPirate]

Gee I wonder if bowing to the Saudi King did anything to reinforce that belief?

In being American, the twit is clueless.

 

[wmrs2]

What is a Feuding slip?

Is that some kinda Hatfield & McCoy hick lingerie?

You are being oppositional! You know that is a sign that you are one of the crazies.

 

[Guest]

Something like this, I think:

http://www.povonline.com/images3/julienewmar.jpg

LOVE it!!!!



Edited to add - Stupefyin' Jones - we had a blast doing that show.

 

[xssve]

I bet you were stupefyin'!

 

[Guest]

I bet you were stupefyin'!

 

[jomar]

This has become an odd thread. Or so it seems to me.

 

[Xelebes]

Ur? It think that's a city in Mesopotamia. 6'4" moron.

This, maybe?

 

[amicus]

Anything to threadjack, Troll, a thread or even a post you don't like and cannot muster up the courage to discuss.

Typical

 

[Huckleman2000]

Gee I wonder if bowing to the Saudi King did anything to reinforce that belief?

In being American, the twit is clueless.

What did you expect him to do? Hold hands?

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/L/c/bush_abdullah_chaching.jpg

 

[jomar]

Anything to threadjack, Troll, a thread or even a post you don't like and cannot muster up the courage to discuss.

Typical

What's to discuss, Ami? There is such a thing as confirmation bias and we're all guilty of it from time to time. I see it all the time here.