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el_bryanto

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9. Joking aside - you are entirely right.

Reply to cali (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 13, 2013, 08:50 AM

Sep 2013

Let's be honest, our friends on the right have for years had media outlets that catered to their confirmation bias; Limbaugh, Fox News, Drudge, all telling them to ignore the evidence of their eyes and just believe what they know in their hearts to be true.

It is very comforting; and we are starting to seek out those outlets of our own.

Bryant

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Confirmation Bias [View all] cali Sep 2013 OP

"Ha! I knew it!" DetlefK Sep 2013 #1

....... cali Sep 2013 #2

That only really applies if you are occasionally wrong. When you are always right (like me) . . . el_bryanto Sep 2013 #3

I should have known this would get a lot of snark cali Sep 2013 #5

Joking aside - you are entirely right. el_bryanto Sep 2013 #9

Why do you think DU has an IGNORE feature? JoePhilly Sep 2013 #4

I don't think that's a fix cali Sep 2013 #7

Blocking out info sources that do not confirm one's pre-existing beliefs JoePhilly Sep 2013 #8

That is why I have no one on Ignore and have never trashed a thread. RC Sep 2013 #10

Me either. JoePhilly Sep 2013 #13

No foolin'. Here's an intresting recent study. Jackpine Radical Sep 2013 #6

I made a similar point ProSense Sep 2013 #11

Thanks, cali. It's a tendency I've observed (and am probably guilty of at times), but didn't know pampango Sep 2013 #12

This place couldn't exist without it. rrneck Sep 2013 #14

Its twin sibling is epistemic closure. geek tragedy Sep 2013 #15