 gingembre says: Common thinking errors explained, each backed by a scientific study. Food for thought! Verrrry Interesting. These are really common - for confirmation bias, once you have formed an opinion, only evidence that supports that opinion seems to matter - everyone does it, and everyone thinks they are impartial. These biases are usually unconscious. They give rise to 'common sense' which often is simply the security of an 'agreement of being' among people. That which is 'taken for granted' (aka ideology) requires 'taking to bits' for an understanding of our individual self and the human condition generally. I went to a Jesuit high-school, and learned that the key to "Jesuetical thought" was to discipline oneself to expect and adjust for such errors. And, as the Jesuits learned, even a small ajustment in bias can make a Dominican wish to burn you at the stake.  Very interesting clip gingembre. I think I am having a #4 right now. LOL Me, too, roix06sclips--I had to go back to the article to review #4, since it was in the middle of the list!  Gee #1 and fundamentalist religion seem made for each other. Don't try to convince me otherwise. It strange how most religions are based on these... I also intrigues me how this could have helped our survival, and why we developed this. @gazco: possibly because although consciousnes and intelligence are evolving in a general way, quite quickly over the past thousand years and especially the last hundred, we need a certain degree of 'conservatism' for maintaining social cohesion so that irrespective of the 'truth' of beliefs, it may be evolutionary advantageous for us not to think about certain things too much, just agree with them. And it is probably more useful for human evolution against backgrounds of relative stability to question these truths and move on to more refined ideas. I think this is as true of science as it is of the rest of our lives: by accepting certain models and theories, collaborative research and prod... 79 pops this is not because of any thinking error, it really deserves. A great clip. |
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