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This is a great video examining confirmation bias and the tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.
Oh my - and I bet you thought you were being really clever.“Why are smart people often really dumb?” For starters, we can blame random YouTube videos.
Oh my - and I bet you thought you were being really clever.
Why don't you summarize the argument? Relying on a video but saying nothing about it doesn't cut it.This is a great video....
That would be a design flaw. You would want the instructions written upside down on the outside edge of the toe.My BIL was like that...a genius when it came to book knowledge...was brilliant with anything to do with electronics...but couldn't pour piss out of a boot with the directions on the heel...
This is a great video examining confirmation bias and the tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.
Why don't you summarize the argument? Relying on a video but saying nothing about it doesn't cut it.
he tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.
Thank you!
I ask this of opening posts all day long and people get all upset with me.
It's wild how people can't distinguish between opinion and fact or offer their own opinions.
It should be a rule. This is advertised as a DEBATE forum, not a show videos forum. There are way too many people here who are either too lazy or too dumb to put their opinions into their own words.
Often just a link appears in an opening post with a copy and paste from the link.
I have a news feed. I don't come to a debate forum for a news feed.
There is no group with more ideological rigidity than the millions upon millions of DUMB people who are now members of the Trump cult.
I'm not. Did my post zing right over your head then?Well, if you are getting your sources from random YouTube clips that is definitely not clever.
Not really accurate.Educated people are far less likely to suspend critical thinking than less educated people.
It is the suspension of critical thinking that has enabled Trump.
People who do not understand how things fit together just accept anything they are told that makes them feel good
This is a great video examining confirmation bias and the tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.
This is a great video examining confirmation bias and the tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.
Confusing education with intelligence is something smart people never do. Only dumb people do that.Not really accurate.
Today's education is far less likely to even teach critical thinking skills, let alone laud them; indeed, it's often the less educated who possess stronger critical thinking skills than the educated. Farmers and trades people for example. Their lives actually depend on their abilities to learn how to think critically and creatively whereas the educated can be actually handicapped by their degrees, believing because they've learned more (in class) they therefore "know" more. That is simply not true.
Ironically, it's those who imagine themselves "more educated" that are having such difficulty understanding Trump - which frankly, I find tragically hilarious. People so "smart" in their own minds they haven't the capacity to grasp their own inabilities to think critically or creatively. Moreover, such people have demonstrated themselves far more susceptible to "group think" than any group I've seen in my lifetime.
This is a great video examining confirmation bias and the tendency of those on the higher end of the spectrum to be more rigid ideologically.