Showing posts with label confirmatory bias. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confirmatory bias. Show all posts
Saturday, November 03, 2012

Thinking like Benjamin Franklin

›
By Gary Berg-Cross There are many reasons to celebrate Ben Franklin – the “First American.”   We celebrate him as a complex m...
Sunday, June 24, 2012

Myth Supplants Reality & Fantasy Displaces Common Sense

›
By Gary Berg-Cross Allan Sloan wrote recently about the 5 Myths of the Great Financial Meltdown . His list covered: 1: The governme...
4 comments:
Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Understanding Confirmatory Bias and Dead End Arguments

›
By Gary Berg-Cross In her popular blog “ General Myers and His Endless War on Error”, Sarah Hippolitus took on PZ Myers essay , Sunda...
23 comments:
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Is A One Percent Justification Meme Spreading?

›
By Gary Berg-Cross In The One Percent Doctrine Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind discussed the Bush Administration hunt for...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Simple Help to Understand Difficult Issues and its Argumentation

›
Gary Berg-Cross The recent arguments on this Blog about supporting language-based charter schools in DC raised some fundamental issues a...
Sunday, April 03, 2011

Bracketology, Biases in Inexact Sciences, Energy Futures & Religious Projections

›
Spring in the DC region can be a mixture of both wonderful & maddening things. The cherry blossoms are wonderful. The budget battle is...
10 comments: