Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
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#2In the book Superforecasting, one of the top scorers in a prediction contest wrote a program to display him news sites with differing biases from what he had viewed in the past. Social news, including HN, does the opposite.
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#3In the book Superforecasting, one of the top scorers in a prediction contest wrote a program to display him news sites with differing biases from what he had viewed in the past. Social news, including HN, does the opposite.
I really would like to read a business/product analyst HN just to see their perspective on tech on a regular basis.
Every other post titled ‘What your developers don’t understand ...’
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#4In the book Superforecasting, one of the top scorers in a prediction contest wrote a program to display him news sites with differing biases from what he had viewed in the past. Social news, including HN, does the opposite.
HN doesn’t show different results to different people, does it? Though I suppose things that the majority disagree with are less likely to be upvoted.
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#5I dismiss this fact as it does not fit into my worldview
Re: Humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that don’t fit their worldview
#6In the book Superforecasting, one of the top scorers in a prediction contest wrote a program to display him news sites with differing biases from what he had viewed in the past. Social news, including HN, does the opposite.
HN, unlike many other examples of social media, doesn't show "personalized" news feeds. So in that respect it's not nearly as bad.
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#7In the book Superforecasting, one of the top scorers in a prediction contest wrote a program to display him news sites with differing biases from what he had viewed in the past. Social news, including HN, does the opposite.
HN doesn’t show different results to different people, does it? Though I suppose things that the majority disagree with are less likely to be upvoted.
The only way it does (that I know of) is whether you have "showdead" turned on or not.
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#8> Within the conservative political blogosphere, global warming is either a hoax or so uncertain as to be unworthy of response. Within other geographic or online communities, vaccines, fluoridated water and genetically modified foods are known to be dangerous. Right-wing media outlets paint a detailed picture of how Donald Trump is the victim of a fabricated conspiracy.
To this day you'll find most well off (and extreme) democrats avoiding GMO foods, protesting vaccines as well as avoiding fluoride in water. I don't think that's a republican issue. Especially in portland that consistently votes democratic but also NO to GMO, Flouride and Vaccines.
Reading that middle sentence maybe it's a little unclear if they are tying that to conservatism, but it's definitely surrounded by it.
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#9> This approach succeeds most of the time when the issue is, say, the atomic weight of hydrogen.
The article is interesting but I think misses one critical point. Most "facts" aren't as clear cut as the weight of hydrogen. Most answers to questions will differ according to conditions. As an example not all people will respond the same to a treatment regimen. Low carb doesn't work for everyone for different reasons so most "facts" on low carb will likely be disputed.
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#10Hardwired and perhaps trained as well. If you ever develop serious skill at debugging logic problems it will be because you have no choice but to accept facts that don't fit into your world view, or maybe it is because you stop having a rigid world view because of how many times you eventually realize you weren't seeing the bigger picture.