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The Curious Case of Confirmation Bias | Life, Science and Meaning
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Life, Science and Meaning. The Myth of Self-Sufficiency →. The Curious Case of Confirmation Bias. August 24, 2014. With this post begins, I hope, a series of posts on the various kinds of cognitive biases and logical fallacies that human beings are susceptible to, in their reasoning. On the first one, I thought I would tackle a very common bias, known as the Confirmation Bias. How is that possible, you say? Where one just ignores conflicting evidence and only pays attention to confirming evidence,. In th...
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ME. | Life, Science and Meaning
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Life, Science and Meaning. Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). 6 thoughts on “ ME. May 24, 2009 at 01:15. Great blog.i can relate some of your experiences with mine :). May 24, 2009 at 04:20. Care to share them? August 22, 2009 at 16:39. August 22, 2009 at 16:48. January 19, 2011 at 17:41. January 19, 2011 at 22:49. Really like your work. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Life, Science and Meaning | Page 2
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Life, Science and Meaning. Newer posts →. September 17, 2011. First of all, one of my favorite videos of all time. So what does that prove, you ask. How easily manipulable we all are? Well, um, yes. And that’s the point. So how do you get away from being manipulated? July 17, 2011. Now that is quite a fancy biology lesson. But what I really want to convey is: how does all this relate to what you experience in day-to-day life? It does. It explains the basis of what we know as “intelligence”. So as I have ...
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pranavkumar | Life, Science and Meaning
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Life, Science and Meaning. Dear Young One,. June 13, 2015. What do you see? Maybe you’re in a room, and you see lights, furniture, air conditioning, and a TV. Or maybe you’re in a park, and you see trees and grass, and fountains. Or maybe you’re on the road, and you see cars and traffic lights. And of course, you see the device on which you are reading this. A computer? Everything around you, absolutely everything you see right now, is an engineering marvel. Yes, including the plants. In time, you will i...
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The Myth of Self-Sufficiency | Life, Science and Meaning
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Life, Science and Meaning. The Curious Case of Confirmation Bias. Dear Young One, →. The Myth of Self-Sufficiency. September 29, 2014. A few of my friends are pretty big on the whole “self-sufficiency” ideal. So I thought I’d write a post debunking it. To start off, let’s define self-sufficiency. Merriam-Webster defines it as “being able to maintain oneself or itself without outside aid :. Capable of providing for one’s own needs. Buying food from the market:. I am self-sufficient, right? 8221; Well, you...
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Dear Young One, | Life, Science and Meaning
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Life, Science and Meaning. The Myth of Self-Sufficiency. Dear Young One,. June 13, 2015. What do you see? Maybe you’re in a room, and you see lights, furniture, air conditioning, and a TV. Or maybe you’re in a park, and you see trees and grass, and fountains. Or maybe you’re on the road, and you see cars and traffic lights. And of course, you see the device on which you are reading this. A computer? Don’t you want to know how the ceiling fan works? Or what it takes to get the food on your plate? In time,...